Is it time to get up ?" "I should say so, Sis." "All right; in ten minutes." As she set her feet upon the floor she observed a tendency on their part to touch twice before settling finally.

A momentary dizziness came over her.

She closed her eyes quickly and waited a moment before reopening them.

Suddenly Hugh's photograph, which was leaning against her hat on the steamer trunk, ducked slowly toward her as if bowing a polite good-morning, and then fell face downward.

Miss Vernon rubbed her eyes and stared at the overturned picture for a full minute before resuming her toilet.