way led toward the tower room, but Dick made sure.

“Where are you taking them, Ah Ha?” he asked.

“Mr. Graham’s room — he come to-day.”

Now whose thought was that? Dick pondered. Ah Ha’s? — Oh Joy’s — or Paula’s? He remembered having heard Graham more than once express his fancy for their lilacs.

He deflected his course from the library and strolled out through the flowers near the tower room. Through the open windows of it came Paula’s happy humming. Dick pressed his lower lip with tight quickness between his teeth and strolled on.

Some great, as well as many admirable, men and women had occupied that room, and for