Look at that thing over there! Remember the thought and energy I---- Damn the thing!" "Why, did you have a row with her ?" asked Hollanden, perplexed.

"I didn't know----" "No, of course you didn't know," cried Hawker, sneering; "because I had no row.

It isn't that, I tell you.

But I know well enough"-- he shook his fist vaguely--"that she don't care an old tomato can for me.

Why should she ?" he demanded with a curious defiance.