THE USES OF SCIENCE It was Hillyard's creed that chance will serve a man very capably, if he is equipped to take advantage of its help; and here was an instance.

The preparation had begun on the morning when Hillyard took the _Dragonfly_ into the harbour of Palma.

Chance had offered her assistance some months later in an hotel at Madrid; as Medina was now to explain.
"The day after you left Mallorca," said Jose Medina, "it was known all over Palma that you had come to visit me." "Of course," answered Martin.
"I was in consequence approached almost immediately, by the other side." "I expected that.

It was only natural." "There is a young lady in Madrid," continued Jose Medina.
"Carolina Muller ?" "No." "Rosa Hahn, then." "Yes," said Jose Medina.
Jose rose and unlocking a drawer in his bureau took out from it a sheaf of photographs.

He selected one and handed it with a smile to Hillyard.
It was the portrait of a good-looking girl, tall, dark, and intelligent, but heavy about the feet, dressed in Moorish robes, and extended on a divan in Oriental indolence against a scene cloth which outdid the luxuries of Llalla Rookh.
"That's the lady, I think." Medina gazed at the picture with delight.