We will look in the shops in Fifth Avenue and lunch at the Ritz-Carlton.

On the garden wall stood Ritz.

"Get Sally, Ritz, but be quick," Kaetheli called up to him.

That just suited Ritz, for he hoped that something particular was in store, and before Kaetheli reached the wall, Sally was brought out.

Ritz sat down to finish, with many a sigh, a delayed arithmetic lesson.

Ritz, too, was now roused to interest in the doings.

You know what we get to-morrow, Ritz?" "Sunday school.

"Ritz, you do guess such ridiculous things.

With these words Ritz turned happily on his side and went to sleep.

Ritz asked plaintively, for if Edi expressed a thought, then it usually remained firmly in Ritz's head.

Ritz asked plaintively, for if Edi expressed a thought, then it usually remained firmly in Ritz's head.

"One can be also something very good without ships, my dear Ritz," the mother said comfortingly, "and that is much safer; then one stays on firm land, and I should advise you to stay.

So Ritz spent all the time out of school either with Erick, or seeking him, which however sometimes cost him a good deal of time, for the very nearest friends, after all, were Erick and Sally.

Just now she was standing in the kitchen-door, when Erick came running up the steps, and hastily asked: "Where are Ritz and Edi?" 'Lizebeth measured him with a long look and said: "I should have thought that a boy in velvet would utter the names in a strange house more politely, and that he might say, 'Where are Eduardi and Moritzli?'

So far Ritz and Edi had kept very quiet, each busy with his own occupation.

But before the door could be opened from within, it was pushed open with great force from outside, and like an arrow the slender Edi shot straight into the tall colonel, who had been standing directly behind the closed door; and at once after Edi, Ritz rushed into Edi, and the tall gentleman received the second push, and in his ears rang confused screamings of mixed words: "They are comingthey comeMarianneErickMariannethey comethey come."

Ritz and Edi ran with much delight and noise down the stairs to seat themselves proudly in the coach, and thus drive to the inn, where both must tell to the guests present, who had changed their consultation place from the church to the inn, what they knew of the strange gentleman.

" With these words he too shook his guest's hand firmly and there remained only to take leave from Ritz and Edi, both of whom he heartily invited to Denmark, wherein Erick strongly supported him, adding: "And you know, Edi, when you are in Denmark, then you can go on ships, and study there all about them.

For Erick had not forgotten that Edi intended to sail around the whole world, and that Ritz too wanted to be something on the sea.

"Price higher than the 'Ritz' in Paris, food fourth-rate, rooms cheaply decorated, and a dullness unequalled.

"I'll tell you the whole story of Japat, Arch, but not until to-morrow," Chase said to him as they drove toward the Ritz.

WOOLRICH, CORNELL. Children of the Ritz.

The cat that lived at the Ritz. (In Harper's bazar, Oct. 1927) © 28Sep27; B752780.

The servants at the Ritz, in Paris, so exquisitely drilled, made no apparent difference, when the bride and bridegroom arrived there about half-past seven o'clock, than if they had been an elderly brother and sister; and they were taken to the beautiful Empire suite on the Vendôme side of the first floor.

"] So Lord Tancred picked up the speaking-tube and told the chauffeur to go back to the Ritz.