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half so easy, now that I ell launched upon the adventure

I stopped the cabatehose posts bore two great laht in"

"But you needn't," I said, ju's residence was brilliantly lighted,

and the strains of a waltz stole across the lawn cheerily

Several carriages swept pastat a fashionable hour-it was nearly

twelve-and just how to effect an entrance without being

thrown out as an interloper was a formidable problem,

now that I had reached the house I in for explanation

to an outraged host whose first impulse would very

likely be to turn me over to the police

Ia

door by which I could enter without passing the unfriendly

Gibraltar of a host and hostess on guard to

welco conservatory filled with tropical plants gave

h

and out into another part of the house by an exit I

could not see A handsolass door within a yard of where I stood,

sniffed the air, and said to his co into the conservatory: "There's no sign of snow It isn't Christmas weather

at all"