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"Come and see me off!" she said--"Take a look at my car and see how you'd like to travel in it!"

Manella pursed her lips and shook her head

"I'd rather not!" sheat what one can never have!"

Morgana laughed

"As you please!" she said--"You are an odd girl, but you are quite beautiful! Don't forget that! Tell the man on the mountain that I said so!--quite beautiful! Good-bye!"

She passed through the lounge with a swift grace of movement and entered her sumptuous limousine, lined richly in corded rose silk and fitted with every iinable luxury like a queen's boudoir on wheels, while Manella craned her neck forward to see the last of her Her valise was quickly strapped in place, and in another le note (which was the only sort of "hooter" she would tolerate) the car glided noiselessly away down the broad, dusty white road, its polished enaht vanishing into deeper light as it disappeared

"There goes the richest woman in America!" said the hotel clerk for the benefit of anyone who ana Royal!"

"Is that so?" drawled a sallow-facedin an invalid chair--"She's not ht She was not much to look at But she was more than looks ever ht Manella, who instinctively felt that though she herselfto look at and "quite beautiful," she was nothing else She had never heard the word "fey" The hlands was shut away from her by the wide barrier of many seas and curtains of cloud And therefore she did not know that "fey" women are a race apart from all other women in the world