The Tenderfoots

THE next morning at breakfast, with the midnight reaction still daggering him, Philip was shamefacedly reticent until after he found that Bromley, charitably or otherwise, was completely ignoring the Corinthian episode. Though he was far from being capable of banishing it himself, he contrived to push it aside sufficiently to enable him to carry his part in the table talk.

"No, I hadn't thought of camping down in a hotel," was his reply to Bromley's question as to his plans for the summer. "Comfortable as this place is, it isn't quite my idea of living: too monotonous. What I'm thinking of is a bachelor apartment in one of the down-town buildings, with meals wherever the eating is best; something of that sort for the present, at least. How about you?"