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Just after seven o'clock that sa Henfrey and his friend Brock e of the Hotel des Palmiers, a rather obscure little establishment in the Avenue de la Costa, behind the Gardens, much frequented by the habitues of the Rooms who know Monte Carlo and prefer the little place to life at the Paris, the Here, and the Riviera Palace, or the Gallia, up at Beausoleil

The Palmiers was a place where one met a ht plue which only the male habitue of Monte Carlo can fully realize The eternal feminine is always so very much in evidence around the Casino, and the ht easily take for the wife of an eminent politician or financier will deplore her bad luck and beg for "a little loan"

"Well," said Hugh as his friend caht to be going--eh? Dorise said half-past seven, and we'll just get across to the Metropole in time Lady Ranscomb is always awfully punctual at home, and I expect she carries out her tiht overcoats over their dinner-jackets and strolled in the warm dusk across the Gardens and up the Galerie, with its expensive little shops, past the original Ciro's to the Metropole

In the big hall they were greeted by a well-preserved, grey-haired Englishwoman, Lady Ranscomb, theof old Sir Richard Ranscoineers and contractors of un life as a small jerry-builder at Golder's Green, and had ended it a ht Lady Ranscohter Dorise, a dainty, fair-haired girl with intense blue eyes, earing a rather daring jazzing gown of pale-blue, the scantiness of which a year or two before would have been voted quite beyond the pale for a lady, and yet in our broad-e and in the horeeted the two men enthusiastically, and at Lady Ranscolasses of an aperitif

"We've been all dayup to the Col di Tenda Sospel is lovely!" declared Dorise's mother "Have you ever been there?" she asked of Brock, as an habitue of the Riviera

"Once and only once I motored from Nice across to Turin," was his reply "Yes It is truly a lovely run there The Alps are gorgeous I like San Dalroves there," he added "But the frontiers are annoying All those restrictions Nevertheless, the run to Turin is one of the finest I know"