Arizona republican., 1909-05-23

Well, it's worth the price of bottle. If only you had had that eye last night. We'll have the bottle in the alcOve at the head of the stairs. l want to talk to you"
 So the two passed up stairs to the secluded alcove, and the bottle soon followed. Merrihew filled the glasses with the air of one who would like to pass heremainder of his life do- ing the same thing Not that he was overfond but each bottle temporarily weeded out that crop of imperishable debts, that Molecular thousand. that Atalanta whose speed he could not Overtake, having no golden apples. To him the world grew roseate and kind ly, viewed through the press of the sparkling grape. and invariably he saw fortune beckOning to the card- tables.
 Now. then, Jack, I've got you where l want you. Who is she?"
 "On my word, I don't know, answered Hillard, stirring restlessly , "Then there is a woman!" cried 1 Merrihew, astonished at his perspi- | cacity. T knew it. Nothing else WOULD SD utIlOTdllLt your ntINt. OHdll we drink a health to her?' Hillard raised his glass and touched | that of his comrade. For the good | of his soul and the peace of his mind | he then and there determined to tell | Merrihew the whole adventure, with | out a single reservation.
 ITO the Lady in the Fog." he said Fog" blankly.
 Well, the Lady in the Mask" Fog, mask? Two of them?" No, only one. once I met her in | the fog, and then I met her in the | mask"
 I'll drink to her: but I'm hanged if l don't believe you're codding me, said Merrihew disappointedly. This | is New York"
 T know it; and yet some times doubt it. Here's to the lady" They drank. Hillard set down his | glass: Merrihew refilled his.
 "The whole story, Jack, details and l all; no half-portions.'
 1 Hillard told the yarn. emitting noth- ing essential He even added that for
 three weeks has had been the author
 of the personal inquiry as to tho | whereabouts of one Madame Angot | More than that he was the guilty man who had set the club by the ears "I don't know, Dan, but this has | taken so strong a hold on me that shan't forget it soon. Imagine il yourself. oh. but she could sing, am a man not to be held in the leash | of an adventure like this; but she held me. How? By the hope that one day I might see her face, with
 no veil of mystery to hold her off al arms length"
 Merrihew was greatly excited. He was for ordering a second bottle, but Hillard stayed him.
 By George! And you are sure that it was at the "Sandford's?"
 q am positive. But there is a puzzle that have failed to solve: Sandford's | cable and the caretaker's declaration I know that I was in that house. ran across a stein which I had giver | Sandford. I have inquired of the po- | lice: they had been requested tC watch the house in the absence of the l owner. The patrolman says that ht
 has seen no light in the house since the family sailed for Africa. I sleeT ! soundly; never have nightmares. AnC ! yet. but for her letters and the fact
 that Giovanni heard her sing under
 my window. I might almost believe
 I've been dreaming. It is no dream;
 but it begins to look as if I were tho
 victim of some fine hoax
 And Sandford mixed up in it. supplemented Merrihew.
 "Sandford and l are SOOd friends | but We are not so intimate that ke'C