Gerald has all the qualities, mental, physical, and spiritual, that it is possible to compress into the limited compass of even an overgrown human frame.

Gerald, you must know, is intellectual to a degree, beautiful as an archangel, adorable as--as you, Soeur Angelique, and clever--almost--as myself." Phebe clapped her hands and nodded, "Yes, yes, all that!" "I can tell you all about Gerald," continued Halloway.

"I have heard of nothing else since I came.

Gerald, my dear sister, is Miss Phebe's idol; I rather think she says her prayers before Gerald's picture every night." "Oh, please!" cried Phebe.
"But who is this Gerald ?" asked Mrs.Whittridge.

"Does he live here ?" "No, Soeur Angelique, and by the way he is not he at all, but she, and will be known in history as Miss Geraldine Vernor.