So she fished it out with a big paper-cutter.

"But it can't be very important," she dissented afterward, "or he

wouldn't have thrown it away."

So she looked at the superscripture on the back of it.

Then she gave a little gasp and tore it open and read it by the

firelight.

Miss Hugonin subsequently took credit to herself for not going into

hysterics. And I think she had some reason to; for she found the paper

a duplicate of the one Billy had taken out of the secret drawer, with

his name set in the place of hers. At the last Frederick R. Woods had