Incidentally," she added, getting lazily out of the chair, "it will illustrate just how I manage my system." Her absence was purely theoretical.

She stepped off the rug, went to the "express office," and took a card from the desk.

When she had stood it upright behind the inkwell, Evadna read in large, irregular capitals: "OUT.

WILL BE BACK LATER." Miss Georgie Howard paid no attention to the little giggle which went with the reading, but stepped across to the ticket desk and to the telegraph table, and put similar cards on display.

Then she came back to the rug, plumped down in her rocker with a sigh of relief, and reached for a large, white box--the five pounds of chocolates which she had sent for.
"I never eat candy when I'm in the office," she observed soberly.