shrilled insistently. It was a perilous locality.

I fancy Billy Woods was out of his head when he suggested being

friends in such a place. Friends, indeed!--you would have thought from

the airy confidence with which he spoke that Margaret had come safely

to forty year and wore steel-rimmed spectacles!

But Miss Hugonin merely cast down her eyes and was aware of no reason

why they shouldn't be. She was sure he must be hungry, and she thought

luncheon must be ready by now.

In his soul, Mr. Woods observed that her lashes were long--long beyond

all reason. Lacking the numbers that Petrarch flowed in, he did not