"Nix!" said Johnson Boller. "Any guy who can come face to face with a regular honest-to-goodness opportunity, Anthony, and not know her inside of one second, could have her tied to his right leg for two hundred years and never know she was there." "You really believe that?" "Oh, I know it!" said Johnson Boller. "I have several millions of years of human experience to prove that I'm right." Anthony leaned closer, causing the largest of the red-faced trio behind to growl senselessly as he was forced to shift for a view of the ring. "Let us assume, Johnson, the individual A," said Anthony. "A wished to become a lawyer; he had his chance and missed it. We will assume him to be peculiarly stupid; we will say that he had opportunity for the second time--and again failed to grasp her. Can you think that, deliberately led up to his third opportunity of becoming a lawyer, A will turn his back for the third time?" "Certainly," said Johnson Boller, without thought and solely because Anthony's precise driveling interested him a little more than the affair of the ring. "Pah!" Mr. Fry said angrily. Just here Mr. Horrigan slipped while making his --nth jab at the Tornado's nose--slipped and fell upon the Tornado's fist and thereafter reeled about for a few seconds. Johnson Boller emitted his first real laugh of the evening; Anthony Fry, who had not seen the incident, failed even to smile. "It would be interesting," he said crisply, "to select a subject, Johnson, and try the experiment." "What experiment?" "That of learning just how many times opportunity must be presented to the average individual to secure full recognition of her presence and her beauties." "Wouldn't it?" mused Johnson Boller absently. "I mean, to reach haphazard into the six millions that go to make up New York, to pick just one individual and segregate him, and then show him--_opportunity_! To take him aside, where there is nothing else to distract him, and thrust opportunity in his very face--the opportunity, whatever it might be, that he has always desired. It seems to me, Johnson, that watching that experiment might be distinctly worth while!" "Aha!" yawned Johnson Boller. "So, therefore," Anthony said placidly, "we will find our subject and make the experiment." This time, and with a considerable jar, Johnson Boller awoke to the fact that danger was at his elbow! He sat bolt upright and stared at Anthony Fry, and in the queerest way his flesh crawled for a moment and his hands turned cold, for he knew that expression of Anthony's all too well. Intent, wholly absorbed, that expression indicated that, however ridiculous the proposition might be, its fangs had fastened in Anthony's very soul!