They laughed and looked at each other and found that the strange thing that kept them apart was gone for ever. In the future they might differ, quarrel even, but the veil between them was torn asunder at last. The rest of the boys had finished dinner when Junior came down, leading in his tall bronzed father with the perfectly fitting clothes and the romantic scar on his handsome face. “Say, fellows, wait a minute. I want you to know my father.” He did it quite as if accustomed to it, but Mrs. Fielding down at the end of the table could see that father and son were reeking with pride. “He’s my son; I’m his father.” “So this is Blackie?” said Phil. “Did you give him that message in my last letter?” Even his father could lie when he wanted to. “Sorry, I forgot.” Phil turned and gave his old classmate a shameless wink. “I can’t really blame the kid. I write him such awfully long letters.” “Father just landed from South America yesterday,” Junior was explaining to Smithy. “So he hurried right up here.” “You see we’re starting for the Canadian Rockies to-morrow,” said Phil. “This fellow’s got an impudent idea that he can out-cast the old man now, but I’ll show him his place.” Mr. Fielding took the floor. “Junior ought to get some good material for the magazine up there,” he said. “Boys, he’s going to be one of the editors next year.” THE END FOOTNOTES: [A] In the United States, written by citizens of the United States. [B] Modern advertising needs many media. Mark Sullivan, at the Author’s League Dinner, Hotel Plaza, 1916, attributed the increase in short stories to the invention of the gasolene engine. Periodical literature, if in part literature only by courtesy, meets the taste and intelligence of all classes. [C] June, 1850. [D] January-June, 1887. [E] “Short Story Writing,” N. Bryllion Fagin, Thomas Seltzer, 1923, p. 98. [F] _New York Times Book Review_, December 23, 1923. Article by Rose C. Feld. [G] “Yet Again,” by Max Beerbohm, Alfred Knopf, 1923. Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber: done so with orginality=> done so with originality {pg xvi} became almost ununbearable=> became almost unbearable {pg 7} said to Naopleon=> said to Napoleon {pg 22} he came to Naopleon=> he came to Napoleon {pg 23} thick atmsophere=> thick atmosphere {pg 31} I want someobdy=> I want somebody {pg 48} was appproaching=> was approaching {pg 80} charged with an electricty=> charged with an electricity {pg 82} calesa and tood refuge=> calesa and took refuge {pg 90} two fliers appeard=> two fliers appeared {pg 96} his horny plams=> his horny palms {pg 104} the men lengthenend=> the men lengthened {pg 113} stood one one side=> stood on one side {pg 117} commites a murder=> commits a murder {pg 137}