After a paragraph of handsome description, "Herve is always enterprising," wrote the editor.

"This is a move in the right direction.

Herve, keep it up." He glanced over the other items meditatively, making alterations here and there.

The last two Fisbee had written as follows: "There is noticeable in the new (and somewhat incongruous) portico erected by Solomon Tibbs at the residence of Mr.Henry Tibbs Willetts, an attempt at rococo decoration which cannot fail to sadden the passer-by." "Miss Sherwood of Rouen, whom Miss Briscoe knew at the Misses Jennings' finishing-school in New York, is a guest of Judge Briscoe's household." Fisbee's items were written in ink; and there was a blank space beneath the last.

At the bottom of the page something had been scribbled in pencil.