"There! I don't know who did it, and it was the first thing Miss Cardiff asked me when I put in my appearance there yesterday, so she doesn't either, though she writes a good deal for the _Decade_." Kendal had gone back to work, and did not see that Elfrida was making an effort of self-control, with a curious exaltation in her eyes.

"I--I have seen this," she said presently.
"Capital, isn't it!" "Miss Cardiff asked you who wrote it ?" she repeated hungrily.
"Yes; she commissioned me to find out, and if he was respectable to bring him there.

Her father said I was to bring him anyway.

So I don't propose to find out.

The Cardiffs have burned their fingers once or twice already handling obscure genius, and I won't take the responsibility.