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raised his hat as he saho his questioner was

"Ah! it's you, Sir Nor, and

was about to quit this confounded babel--this tumultuous den of thieves

What has detained you?"

"I was on duty at Whitehall Are we not in time to keep our

appointment?"

"Oh, certainly! La Masque is at hoht I believe in my soul she doesn't knohat sleep means"

"And you are still as much in love with her as ever, I dare swear! I

have no doubt, now, it was of her you were thinking when I ca else could ever have one as you

did, when Providence sentbrow

Sir Norman favored him with a half-amused, half-contemptuous stare for a

moarettes;

lit one, and after s for a few minutes, pleasantly remarked, as if

the fact had just struck him: "Ormiston, you're a fool!"