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Arty Ferrard's house is a poor relation to most of the residences there. The black areaway rail is broken, and the basement-door grill is rusty. But at the windows are red-and-white-figured chintz curtains, with a $2.98 bisque figurine of an unclothed lady between them; the door is of spotless white, with a bell-pull of polished brass. Mr.

"Do you know, I've never been to the seashore." "Don't worry," she replied. "I won't let you see much of the ocean. We'll go to the Traymore, and spend the whole time dancing in the Submarine Grill." "But I must be back in time for the service on Sunday," he said. "We're going to leave first thing in the morning. We'll go in the car, and I'll drive. Will you sit with me in the front seat?"

Wot performance? 'Well, I'll tell you, said the captain, getting slowly off the rail. And he did: at full length, with every wounding epithet and absurd detail repeated and emphasised; he had his own vanity and Huish's upon the grill, and roasted them; and as he spoke, he inflicted and endured agonies of humiliation. It was a plain man's masterpiece of the sardonic.

"I shall never change it," he assured her eagerly. "We are in a taxicab and I know it's most unusual and improper, but " "If you hadn't kissed me," she declared a moment later as she leaned forward to look in the glass, "I should not have eaten a mouthful of supper." They drove to the Milan Grill. It was a little early for the theatre people, and they were almost alone in the place.

In reply to questions asked through the grill, the answer was given, "We are men of the forest, and we are come to carry the Lady Margaret of Evesham off to a secure hiding-place. The lord of Evesham has discovered her whereabouts, and will be here shortly, and we would fain remove her before he arrives." "From whom have you warrant?" the lady superior said.

Whether the fact that he encountered the Carrs before he was three days in town, had dinner at their home, and took Sophie once to luncheon at the Granada Grill, had anything to do with this conclusion deponent sayeth not.

"So I went to a lady professor, and she saw the point at once. Since then I've had five lessons, and I can fox-trot in my sleep. To-morrow is Saturday. Where shall we go?" "To the theater." "Good. We'll start with that. But the minute the play is over we'll gallop off to the Plaza Grill just as the music is in full swing " "And we'll dance," she groaned, "for hours.

Heaven certainly had not gifted John Clare with a genius for cookery, any more than with the higher faculty of money-making. The visit of worthy Monsieur Grill to Helpston had the good result that henceforth Clare's diet and mode of living became greatly improved.

Jimmy had never been very fond of the orchestra at the Regent Grill, holding the view that it interfered with conversation and made for an unhygienic rapidity of mastication; but he was profoundly grateful to it now for bursting suddenly into La Boheme, the loudest item in its repertory. Under cover of that protective din he was able to toy with a steaming dish which his waiter had brought.

It bore on its crest its gay flotillas of pleasure and its drift of derelicts. To me it pointed all the miserable morals of contrast. "Where to?" inquired Bobby. "Do you show yourself in triumph at Rector's grill, or go home to dream of applauding thousands?" The lady shrugged her shapely shoulders. "Me for the hay!" she announced with prompt decisiveness.