Part 40 (2/2)

It fairly makes you stutter To see him start his swing!

Success attend his putter!

And luck be with his drive!

And may he do each hole in two, Although the bogey's five!”_

The voices died away. There was a silence.

”If I hadn't missed a two-foot putt, I'd have done the long fifteenth in four yesterday,” said the King.

”I won the Ladies' Open Champions.h.i.+p of the Outer Isles last week,”

said the Princess.

They looked into each other's eyes for a long moment. And then, hand in hand, they walked slowly into the palace.

EPILOGUE

”Well?” we said, anxiously.

”I like it,” said the editor.

”Good egg!” we murmured.

The editor pressed a bell, a single ruby set in a fold of the tapestry upon the wall. The major-domo appeared.

”Give this man a purse of gold,” said the editor, ”and throw him out.”

THE END

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