The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-06-21

Tourists" cried st. Hillary indlg-
nantly. Have I not told you we are
distinguished architects?''
Because" continued the major domo
patiently, closing his eyes as II he had
not heard the interruption. 'all the
palace is In confusion. Tomorrow
night the Princess Caesarini gives the
famous bal masque. You can under
stand. then. that this Is no time to visit
our palace"
But we could at least see the safes
They interest us particularly"
The safes. signore! Pooh. pooh,
they have been made into furnaces
long ago"
But the tower-we can visit that
without troubling you. We are writ
ing a book on curious towers"
The man shrugged his shoulders OBJ
stinately. AFTER tomorrow night per-
haps. | do not know. Certainly not
till then. And even Their our princess
may not care to have the gentlemen
come. She goes to Paris the day after,
and the palace will be closed"
This was alarming news.
"Closed." persisted st. Hilary, and IL
was impossible to mistake the note of
satisfaction in his voice. "Closedl And
does no one stay to take care Of it,"
but certainly replied the servant
suspiciously. 81 stay and all the serv-
ants, and then, let me tell the gentle
men, unless the princess commands no
one, not even the king, has admit
lance"
I thought st. Hilary's eagerness most
indiscreet, but he was in M way
abashed.
1T is TO be a very exclusive ball. I
suppose"
"Of an exclusiveness that will ex-
clude all Inglesi and forrestieri," cried
the servant maliciously, and shut the
door in our faces.
"Do you think your suspicious and
vulgar curiosity quite apropos, st. Hill
aryY' / demanded vexatiously as we
turned from the door.
"Oh, thick of head and slow of I'M
~derstanding," he retorted in wild good
humor. do you think that / asked
my questions without reason? I want
ed to know if it were not better for
us TO postpone our explorations till aft
er this precious ball. l have learned
definitely that it would be quite use
less. If Nine. La Princesse goes to
Paris Immediately after it is not likely
that she will bother her head giving
tourists or architects permission to ex-
plore her palace. AS to forcing our
way in afterward. you heard what the
man said. For my part I prefer to en-
ter the palace as a guest. We must
resort to the jimmy and the dark Ian
tern as a last extremity. Certainly
we must go to that ball."
without an invitation and CO.'S
tumes?"
"Assuredly not. And the costumes
/ have in my minds eye for you
marvel. You, the stolid pig, shall be as
respondent as the doge. As for me,
/ shall be bravely clad in doublet and
hose as the captain of the guard. And
behold, in that room yonder probably re-
pose our costumes this very moment"
st. Hilary had tossed his head to a
window of a pr~etentious apartment on
the second story.
1--WE are going to hire costumes from
a shop?"
What" he cried in horror. "You
have lived in Venice three years and
mistake the apartments of one of the
most aristocratic families of Venice fol
a costumer's shop. Fie, fe."
You are not going to steal the cos.
tunes and the tickets?" / cried in dis
may. st. Hilary's methods were al
ways so beautifully direct and un.
scrupulous.
IL am not going to steal them. / am
going, as it We're, to squeeze the cos
tunes off the noble backs Of two gal
liant cavaliers l know slightly, and the
tickets out of their pockets. Oh. they
will gladly oblige me, those young gen.
tlemen.'
"But why?'
"Why. my friend? Because it so
happens that l hold a little note that
is signed jointly in the writing of the
noble youths. Now, if I were to post
pone the necessity of their paying
those notes for a month or two, or il
/ removed the necessity of payment
altogether. would they not be duly
grateful?'
As I have said. st. Hilary's methods
were always so beautifully direct and
INSCRIPTIONS.
st. Hilary and I were smiling at our.
selves before the pier glass in my bed
room. 1t seemed to me quite impos-
sible that we could be recognized.
AS a captain of the Inquisitorial
guard st. Hilary was inimitable. His
black eyes. as bright and piercing as
any swashbuckler's, glowed through
the velvet mask with a f~erocity that
was startling. His %leanness and agili-
ty, the stiff carriage of his compact
and sinewy little body. the gray goatee
and mustachios. all distinctive Of ST.
Hilary. were quite as distinctive of the