When Windy came toiling up out of the pit alone, but one remark was addressed to him.

"Aren't you going to play it out?" asked Cupid.

"Huh?" said Windy, pausing. His coat was torn off his back, his soiled white trousers were out at the knees, his nose was bleeding freely, and his mouth was lopsided.

"Aren't you going to finish the match? You've only played 46. Kitts made a mistake in the count."

"Finish--h.e.l.l!" snarled Windy. "You roosted up here like a lot of buzzards and let me chop myself out of the contest! I feel like finishin' the lot of you, and I'm through with any club that'll let a swine like Kitts be a member!"

Oddly enough, this last statement was substantially the same as the one Adolphus made when he recovered consciousness.

The wily Cupid, concealing from each the intentions of the other, and becoming a bearer of pens, ink, and paper, managed to secure both their resignations before they left the clubhouse that evening, and peace now reigns at the Country Club.

We have been given to understand that in the future the committee on membership will require gilt-edged certificates of character and that no rough diamonds need apply.

n.o.body won the handicap cup, and n.o.body knows what to do with it, though there is some talk of having it engraved as follows:

"Elimination Trophy--won by W. W. Wilkins, knockout, one round."

Other Fiction

ZANE GREY'S NOVELS

_THE MAN OF THE FOREST_ _THE DESERT OF WHEAT_ _THE U. P. TRAIL_ _WILDFIRE_ _THE BORDER LEGION_ _THE RAINBOW TRAIL_ _THE HERITAGE OF THE DESERT_ _RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE_ _THE LIGHT OF WESTERN STARS_ _THE LAST OF THE PLAINSMEN_ _THE LONE STAR RANGER_ _DESERT GOLD_ _BETTY ZANE_ _LAST OF THE GREAT SCOUTS_ The life story of "Buffalo Bill" by his sister Helen Cody Wetmore, with Foreword and conclusion by Zane Grey

_ZANE GREY'S BOOKS FOR BOYS_

_KEN WARD IN THE JUNGLE_ _THE YOUNG LION HUNTER_ _THE YOUNG FORESTER_ _THE YOUNG PITCHER_ _THE SHORT STOP_ _THE RED-HEADED OUTFIELD AND OTHER BASEBALL STORIES_

STORIES OF RARE CHARM BY GENE STRATTON-PORTER

_MICHAEL O'HALLORAN._ Ill.u.s.trated by Frances Rogers.

Michael is a quick-witted little Irish newsboy, living in Northern Indiana. He adopts a deserted little girl, a cripple. He also a.s.sumes the responsibility of leading the entire rural community upward and onward.

_LADDIE._ Ill.u.s.trated by Herman Pfeifer.

This is a bright, cheery tale with the scenes laid in Indiana. The story is told by Little Sister, the youngest member of a large family, but it is concerned not so much with childish doings as with the love affairs of older members of the family. Chief among them is that of Laddie and the Princess, an English girl who has come to live in the neighborhood and about whose family there hangs a mystery.

_THE HARVESTER._ Ill.u.s.trated by W. L. Jacobs.

"The Harvester," is a man of the woods and fields, and if the book had nothing in it but the splendid figure of this man it would be notable.

But when the Girl comes to his "Medicine Woods," there begins a romance of the rarest idyllic quality.

_FRECKLES._ Ill.u.s.trated.

Freckles is a nameless waif when the tale opens, but the way in which he takes hold of life; the nature friendships he forms in the great Limberlost Swamp; the manner in which everyone who meets him succ.u.mbs to the charm of his engaging personality; and his love-story with "The Angel" are full of real sentiment.

_A GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST._ Ill.u.s.trated.

The story of a girl of the Michigan woods; a buoyant, loveable type of the self-reliant American. Her philosophy is one of love and kindness towards all things; her hope is never dimmed. And by the sheer beauty of her soul, and the purity of her vision, she wins from barren and unpromising surroundings those rewards of high courage.

_AT THE FOOT OF THE RAINBOW._ Ill.u.s.trations in colors.

The scene of this charming love story is laid in Central Indiana. The story is one of devoted friendship, and tender self-sacrificing love.

The novel is brimful of the most beautiful word painting of nature, and its pathos and tender sentiment will endear it to all.

_THE SONG OF THE CARDINAL._ Profusely ill.u.s.trated.

A love ideal of the Cardinal bird and his mate, told with delicacy and humor.

THE NOVELS OF MARY ROBERTS RINEHART

_DANGEROUS DAYS._

A brilliant story of married life. A romance of fine purpose and stirring appeal.

_THE AMAZING INTERLUDE._

Ill.u.s.trations by The Kinneys.

The story of a great love which cannot be pictured--an interlude--amazing, romantic.

_LOVE STORIES._

This book is exactly what its t.i.tle indicates, a collection of love affairs--sparkling with humor, tenderness and sweetness.

_"K."_ Ill.u.s.trated.