Can you give me a position ?'" "And he said: 'What else is the matter ?' And I said, 'The stock market.' And that is how it remains, I am to call on him to-morrow." She said in consternation: "Forgive me.

I did not think you meant it.

I did not know that you were--were----" "Ruined!" he nodded laughingly.

"I am, practically.

I have a little left--badly invested--which I'm trying to get at.