ART AT HEART'S DESIRE _How Tom Osby, Common Carrier, caused Trouble with a Portable Annie Laurie_ The shadows of night had fallen when at length Tom Osby crept stealthily to his door and looked around.

The street seemed deserted and silent, as usual.

Tom Osby stepped to the side of the bed and withdrew from under the blankets the bit of gutta-percha which Curly had noticed him conceal.

He adjusted the record in the machine and sprung the catch.

Then he sat and listened, intent, absorbed, hearkening to the wonderful voice of one of the world's great contraltos.