Thus more than two weeks passed and Dick had become even more noticeably a stay-at-home. Several times when Bert Sands had come up for a conference, she had found the front door locked, and Moto blankly ignorant as to the whereabouts of his employer. In fact, Dick had formed the habit of keeping the front door locked, so that in case of anyone happening about, he would at least have a chance to drop the curtain upon his Land O'Dreams before opening it.
However, eventually he awakened to the fact that unless he were to see Bert Sands, she would certainly begin to wonder; and as he would much prefer to see her in her own home in Waikiki, rather than have her alert mind observing him upon his own lanai under the present conditions, he decided that it would be good medicine to drop in upon her occasionally, just by way of making things look natural. But when he did drop in, quite early one forenoon, he immediately wished that he hadn't; for Bert pounced upon him with the demand that
