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But she looked at the fashionable proportions of the other hat with so like alarm How could she protect it? She did not for ait, for it was her earnest desire to return it at once, unharmed, to its kind purloiner

She summoned the newsboy and purchased three thick newspapers Froe of the hat To be sure, it did not look like a hat when it was done, but that was all the better The feathers were upheld and packed softly about with bits of paper crushed together to y cushion, and the whole built out and then covered over with paper She reflected that girls ore their hair wound about their heads and covered by plain felt hats would not be unlikely to carry large newspaper-wrapped packages through the city streets

She decided to go barehanded, and put the white kid gloves in the suit-case, but she took off her beautiful rings, and hid them safely inside her dress

When the porter ca-car, he looked at her almost with a start, but she answered his look with a pleasant, "GoodYou see I'm fixed for a damp day"

"Yes, miss," said the o'll be hty wet De wind's off de lake, and de rain's comin' from all way 'twoncet"

She sacrificed one of her precious quarters to get rid of the attentive porter, and started off with a brisk step down the long platforet out of the neighborhood as quickly as possible, so she followed the strea-rooreat, wet, noisy world With the saroup of people into a car, which presently brought her into the neighborhood of the large stores, as she had hoped it would It ith relief that she recognized the na of world-wide reputation

Well for her that she was an experienced shopper She went straight to the ed to have the hat boxed and sent to the address Dunhaentle voice and handsome rain-coat proclaimed her a lady and commanded deference and respectful attention As she walked away, she had an odd feeling of having communicated with her one friend and preserver