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Together we left the beautiful room in which this interview had taken place, and crossed the hall As we approached the entrance, Heliobas turned towards me and said with a smile: "Did not the manoeuvres of my street-door astonish you?"

"A little," I confessed

"It is very simple The button you touch outside is electric; it opens the door and at the sa me of a visitor When the visitor steps across the threshold he treads, whether he will or no, on another apparatus, which closes the door behind hie's room, who immediately comes to ed in almost the same manner"

And he touched a handle similar to the one outside, and the door opened instantly Heliobas held out his hand--that hand which a few e authority over me

"Good-bye, hed "I do not think I was ever really afraid of you," I said "If I was, I aer You have proive e and hope in they Reht I should advise you to be in bed by ten at the latest"

I agreed to this, and we shook hands and parted I walked blithely along, back to the Avenue du Midi, where, on my arrival indoors, I found a letter froive me the nah the "Aed me to call upon them, and enclosed two letters of introduction for the purpose She concluded her epistle by saying: "Raffaello Cellini has been invisible ever since your departure, but our ini a picture for the Salon--so that we have never seen I shall intrude myself into his studio soon on some pretence or other, and will then let you know all about it In the meantime, believe me, "Your ever devoted friend, AMY"

I answered this letter, and then spent a pleasant evening at the Pension, chatting sociably with Madaoverness, who boarded there, and who had no end of droll experiences to relate, her enviable te to always see the hu chatter and her expressive gesticulations, and we all threeon the advice of Heliobas, I retired early to my room, where a warm bath had been prepared in colass tube No 1, and poured the colourless fluid it contained into the water, which i to boil