watch was, he sometimes looked at it on the sly on ac- count of the old leather strap he used in place of a chain. When Della reached home her intoxication gave way a little to prudence and reason. She got out her curling irons and lighted the gas and went to work repairing the ravages made by generosity added to love. Which is always a tre- mendous task, dear friends- a mammoth task. Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny, close- lying curls that made her look wonderfully like a truant school- boy. She looked at her reflec-
