“The Mongols’ Satan.”

“Oh! So these Yezidees are devil-worshipers!”

“They are more. They are actually devils.”

“You don’t really believe that even in unexplored China there exists such a creature as a real sorcerer, do you?” he inquired, smilingly.

“I don’t wish to talk of it.”

To his surprise her face had flushed, and he thought her sensitive mouth quivered a little.

He watched her in silence for a moment; then, leaning a little way across the table:

“Where are you going when the show here closes?”

“To my boarding-house.”

“And then?”