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"May I have the honour," suggested the prince, "of waiting upon you at noon to conduct you? And I need hardly say that we undertake the journey under oath of secrecy?"

"Anything--anything!" cried Olivia

"Oh,e, into this awful place of Four Dimentias--or whatever it was you said"

"We will be ready to go with you at noon," said Olivia steadily

St George held his peace as they ht out, but one was clear enough

The boy servant ran before them to the door They urdy on the curb was bubbling over with arrulous Italians with push-carts, lighted by flaring torches Men were returning fro, wo with the footh that was like a groan, Mrs Hastings sank back on the cushions of the brougham

"I feel," she said, eyes closed, "as if I had been in a pagan temple where they worship oracles and what's-his-names What tiet hoain I want soood sound cup of coffee, and then I shall knohat's actually what"

To St George the slow drive up toas no less unreal than their visit His head hirling, a hundred plans and speculations filled his s and the lawyer's patterned utterance hardly found their way At his own street he was set doith Mrs Hastings' perave him her hand

"I can not thank you," she said, "I can not thank you But try to knoon't you, what this has been to e stood in the brightness of the street looking after the vanishing carriage, his hand tingling from her touch Then he went up to his apartment and met Rollo--sleek, deferential, the acme of the polite barbarise feel that he and his world were living Ah, he thought, as Rollo took his hat, this was no way to live, with the whole world singing to be discovered anew

He sat down before the trim little white table with its pretty china and silver and its one rose-shaded candle, but the doubtful content of coh The spirit of the road and of the chase was in his veins, and he was agloith "the taste for pilgri" He looked about on the simple luxury hich he had surrounded himself, and he welcoone up stairs to coe spoke aloud: "If Miss Holland sails for Yaque to-morrow on the prince's submarine," he said, "The Aloha and I will follow her"