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She slipped her arswood's and hurried her away Don Aloysius was puzzled by her words,--and, as Rivardi caatively The Marchese answered the unspoken query by an i

"Altro! She is impossible!" he said irritably--"Wild as the wind!--uncontrollable! She will kill herself!--but she does not care!"

"What has she done?" asked Aloysius, s new?--a parachute in which to fall gracefully like a falling star?"

"Nothing of the kind"--retorted Rivardi; vexed beyond all reason at the priest's tranquil air of good-hu the air-ship herself! She took ? I tell you it is very serious--very foolhardy She knows nothing of aerial navigation--"

"Was her steering faulty?"

Rivardi hesitated

"No,--it onderful"--he admitted, reluctantly; "Especially for a first attele' alone! Alone! Think of it! That little creature alone in the air with a huge air-ship under her sole control! The very idea is ently--"I think she cannot mean what she says in this particular instance She is naturally full of triu invention you must own!--and her triumph makes her bold But be quite easy in your mind!--she will not travel alone!"

"She will--she will!" declared Rivardi, passionately--"She will do anything she has a mind to do! As well try to stop the wind as stop her! She has some scheme in her brain,--so fantastic vision of that Brazen City you spoke of the other day--"

Don Aloysius gave a sudden start

"No!--not possible!" he said--"She will not pursue a phantasm,--a dream!"

He spoke nervously, and his face paled Rivardi looked at him curiously

"There is no such place then?" he asked--"It is only a legend?"

"Only a legend!" replied Aloysius, slowly--"Soe of the desert,--others tell stories of having heard the bells in the brazen towers ring,--but no one--NO ONE," and he repeated the words with emphasis--"has ever been able to reach even the traditional environs of the place Our hostess," and he smiled--"is a very wonderful little person, but even she will hardly be able to discover the undiscoverable!"