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"You have knowledge of both these things?" asked St George indulgently

"Yaque understood both those laws," said the prince quietly, "when Willialand"

He hesitated for a ardless of another soft explosion froham's lips, he added: "Do you not see? Will you not understand? It is our knowledge of the Fourth Dimension which has enabled us to keep our island a secret"

St George suddenly thrilled fro the truth? What if thisthe truth?

"Moreover," resu believed that new strength would come to my people by the introduction of an inhabitant of one of the continents His co us, in fulfil that the state, and every satrapy therein, shall receive no service, either of blood or of bond, nor enter into the e contract with an alien; from which law only the royal house is exempt Thus were the two needs of our land to be served by theno way to settle the difficulty, ed to leave the reat patient arbiter of destinies of which your civilization takes no account, save to reduce it to slavery Accordingly each inhabitant of the island took a solemn oath to await, with an open mind free from choice or prejudice, the settleods would permit the possible Five days after this decision our watchers upon the hills sighted a South African transport bound for the Azores to coal A hundred ht that all on board had been lost A submarine was ordered to the spot--"

"Do you e, "that you were able to see the wreck at that distance?"

"Certainly," said the prince "Pray forgive ly, "if I seem to boast It is difficult for me to believe that your appliances are so i our vision at the ti our first discoveries"

Involuntarily St George turned to Miss Holland What would she think, he found hi Her eyes were lu quickly; he was relieved to find that she had not the infectious vulgarity to doubt the possibility of what seeustus Frothingham, who had assumed an air of polite interest and an accurately cynical s his professional attention to any of the vagaries of the client Mrs Hastings stirred uneasily