"I am Luzanne Larue." "That makes me no wiser." "Hasn't Carnac Grier spoken of me ?" Junia shook her head, and turned her face towards the door of Madame Grandois' room.

"Had we not better go somewhere else to talk, after you've seen Madame Grandois and the baby ?" she asked with a smile, yet she felt she was about to face an alarming event.

"Madame Grandois has spoken pleasantly of you to me," Junia added, for tact was her prompt faculty.

"If you'd come where we could talk undisturbed--do you see ?" Luzanne made no reply in words, but taking up the dish she went into the sick-room, and Junia heard her in short friendly speech with Madame Grandois.

Luzanne appeared again soon and spoke: "Now we can go where I'm boarding.