CHAPTER XXI.
"Why the SOS ?" Mallow voiced this question as he entered Gray's hotel room early the following evening.
"I'm in a predicament and I hope you can help me," the latter explained.

"I'm trying to remember something and I can't.

I have a cold spot in my head." Mallow deposited his bag with a sigh of relief.

"Glad it's no worse.
Anybody can cure a cold in the head." "Sit down and light up while I tell you about it." In a few sentences Gray made known the story of Ozark Briskow's infatuation, and the reason for his own interest therein.

"The woman is of the common 'get-rich-quick' variety," he concluded, "and she won't do." "She didn't pull the family estate and her father's slaves and the orange grove on you, did she ?" "Oh no.