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Manella gave an iesture

"I do not understand all your fine words"--she said--"But I will answer you I told her about you--how you had co on the hill rather than at the Plaza--and how I took to you all the food you asked for, and she seehed,--she looks very pretty when she laughs And--and she see posture

"Seemed to fancy?what?--"

"That I was not bad to look at--" and Manella, gathering sudden boldness, lifted her dark eyes to his face--"She said I could tell you that she thinks me quite beautiful! Yes!--quite beautiful!"

He smiled--a smile that was more like a sneer

"So you are! I've told you so, often 'There needs no ghost co cat!--she told you to repeat her opinion to uess why?"

"No!"

"Sie that she considers o back to New York full of the story! Subtle little devil! But I am not your lover, and never shall be,--not even for half an hour!"

Manella sprang up fro

"I know that!" she said, and her splendid eyes flashed proud defiance--"I know I have been a fool to let myself care for you! I do not knohy I did--it was an illness! But I am well now!"

"You are well now? Good! O let us be joyful! Keep well, Manella!--and be 'quite beautiful'--as you are! To be quite beautiful is a fine thing--not so fine as it used to be in the Greek period--still, it has its advantages! I wonder what you will do with your beauty?"

As he spoke, he rose, stretching and shaking him self like a forest aniive it to so! That's the old law of nature--it's getting a bit monotonous, still it's the la she--the wonderful white wo the law! Fortunately she's not beautiful--"

"She IS!" exclaimed Manella--"I think her so!" He looked down upon her froht with a tolerant amusement