You would have been asleep when I at last escaped, so I determined to come the first thing this morning and tell you my news." Four round eyes of excited horror fixed themselves upon her, so with deep importance of voice and manner, Lady Betty went on: "I sat with Captain Hume in the picture gallery, just before we went to bed.

Believe me, I have not been able to sleep all night from it, dears! Well, we had been speaking of that fighting scene by Teniers in a beer house, you know, the one which hangs by the big Snuyders.

The moon--no, it could not have been the moon.

It must have been the arc light over the entrance which shines in from the angle.

Anyway, it felt as if it were the moon, when I drew aside the blind; and it struck my heart with a cold foreboding, as he said such things, fights, happened now sometimes, and he was at Monte Carlo when Count Shulski was shot; and, though it was hushed up by the authorities and no one hardly heard of it much, still it made a stir.