PERFECTLY WELL.

It is a physical impossibility. Coffee contains an appreciable

quantity of the deadly drug caffeine, and therefore----

"I wrote _that_," she said. "And I wrote the advertisement of the

Spiller Baby Food on page ninety-four, and the one about the Preeminent

Breakfast Sausage on page eighty-six. Oh, Archie, dear, the torments I

have been through, fearing that you would some day find me out and

despise me. I couldn't help it. I had no private means, and I didn't

make enough out of my poetry to keep me in hats. I learned to write

advertisements four years ago at a correspondence school, and I've been

doing them ever since. And now I don't mind your knowing, now that you

have told me this perfectly splendid news. Archie!"

She rushed into his arms like someone charging in for a bowl of soup at

a railway station buffet. And I drifted out. It seemed to me that this

was a scene in which I was not on. I sidled to the door, and slid

forth. They didn't notice me. My experience is that nobody ever

does--much.

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