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Distressed? Not I! Events had been too startling fora few bars of a silly overture when I was in sight Indeed I had been frightened; yet why should not the world de to Prof Darht sharethe house; scarcely ofain with an air of preoccupation

I was getting out of patience at all thisone of her brief absences, Ethel tapped at my door, and a minute later Kitty Reid dashed atwith one hand in a black bag

"Oh, Helen, Helen," cried Kitty, laughing and half crying, "have you seen Cadge's exclusive?"

"Cadge! You were there? Cadge!"

"Sure," said that strange creature, her keen eyes glancing about my roo me know beforehand--"

"Or iven a--a tube of chrome yellow to see you!"

"--but we've made the Row look like nineteen cents in a country where they don't use e nodded towards the papers I had been reading "But the Star's worth the whole--nohere the e! Show me!"

Fro she drew several sheets of paper, upon each of which was pasted a cutting froin; a handkerchief, a bunch of keys, six pointed pencils, a pen-knife, a purse, rather lean, a photograph of two kittens

"There," she said, relieved at sight of these, "knew I couldn't have lost 'em Brooklyn woood little old half column Nohere--ah, here you are!"

She unfolded a Star clipping and proudly spread it upon htheadlines

BEAUTY OF A WOMAN THREATENS A PANIC AT THE OPERA HOUSE

PRESENCE OF MISS HELEN WINSHIP CREATES SENSATION THAT MIGHT HAVE RESULTED IN A PERILOUS STAMPEDE

Alar the Third Scene of "Christofero Colombo"

GREAT AUDIENCE AT THE METROPOLITAN ENDANGERED BY FRENZY OVER REMARKABLY LOVELY GIRL

"Hot stuff, ain't it?" said Cadge, beanment--dresses and society, second fiddle to the ht! Minute I saw you in the Van Daest circus I ever--hy, Helen--"