The "Matrimonial Objects" were perhaps a little ashamed of their "personals" by now, and neither Blix nor Condy were ever to hear their version of the meeting in the back dining-room of Luna's Mexican restaurant.

Captain Jack was, in fact, anxious to change the subject.
"Any news of the yarn yet ?" he suddenly inquired of Condy "What do those Eastern publishin' people think of Our Mug and Billy Isham and the whiskey schooner ?" Condy had received the rejected manuscript of "In Defiance of Authority" that morning, accompanied by a letter from the Centennial Company.
"Well," he said in answer, "they're not, as you might say, falling over themselves trying to see who'll be the first to print it.

It's been returned." "The devil you say!" responded the Captain.

"Well, that's kind of disappointin' to you, ain't it ?" "But," Blix hastened to add, "we're not at all discouraged.

We're going to send it off again right away." Then she said good-by to them.
"I dunno as you'll see me here when you come back, miss," said the Captain, at the gate, his arm around K.D.B."I've got to schemin' again.