She seemed to drop out of sight a year ago.

Some said one thing, and some said another.

But you can bet your bottom dollar that Mrs.Senator Boompointer, who knows how to pull all the wires in Washington, will know, if any one does." "But is Mrs.Boompointer really disaffected, and a Southern sympathizer ?" said Brant, "or is it only caprice or fashion ?" While speaking he had risen, with a half-abstracted face, and had gone to the window, where he stood in a listening attitude.

Presently he opened the window, and stepped outside.

Hooker wonderingly followed him.
One or two officers had already stepped out of their rooms, and were standing upon the veranda; another had halted in the path.