As he let himself in he heard an awkward drumming and strumming on the piano, and peering slyly through the opening in the portierre he was startled to find Patsy herself making the dreadful noise, while a pretty girl sat beside her directing the movements of her fingers.

" At the word "drink" Jack ceased his drumming and singing, and said in friendly tone, "The devil take the Jews!

She closed her eyeswaitedheard the distant drumming of hoofs on the turf of the hillside.

"Oh, Olaf, Olaf, why didn't you tell her?" She did not know, of course, how she was tempting him; she did not know, of course, how her least touch seemed to waken every pulse in his body to an aching throb, and set hope and fear a-drumming in his breast.