nt, where an enormous diamond shone conspicuously. With him came the second Mrs. Peterkin, whose name was Mary Jane, but whom her husband alwa

ies go that way,' but followed her husband into the gentlemen's dressing-room, where she deposited her wraps, and then, shaking in every

en and then I wanted a little time to talk up the ropes with you. We are going to run you in, you bet!' and again his c

s, and sixes, and Harold was kept busy wit

not belong there, had carried them to the ladies' room and deposited them upon the bed, just as the girl who w

Harold said, as he returned to the hall, never dreaming that this little circumstance, trivial as it se

intelligent boy, he decided who was accustomed to society and who was not, and leaning over the banister when not on duty, watched them when they entere

ing. Happy to see you. Pleasa

hought in his mind that he, too, would some day go down those stairs and into those parlors as a

ee the crimson satin trimmed with ermine, of which Dick had told him. Many of the guests he had mentally criticised unsparingly, but Mrs. St. Cl

Dick told me, and he wanted to come and assist yo

But the machine was getting a little tired. It was hard work to stand for two hours or more, and Mrs. Tracy had impressed it upon him that he was not to sit down. But when Mrs. St. Clai

you look! Handsomer than anybody

pliment was genuin

n hair, she said, as she noticed a look of fatigue in his eyes, 'are you not tired, sta

ed, nodding toward the parlors, from

he last guests came up the stairs there was no hall boy there to tell them, 'Ladies this way, gentlemen that,' for Harold was in the thickest of the crowd, standing on a chair so as to look over the heads of those in front of him

were tired, and he was growing sleepy. Surely he might sit down now, particularly as Mrs. St. Claire had suggested it, and bringing himself a chair from one of the rooms he sat down in a corner of the hall and was soon in a sound sleep, from which, however, he

aught a glimpse of a thin, pale face and a pair of keen, black eyes, which seemed for an instant to take

is! looks just like a pirate in that clo

Frank Tracy came from the room and hurri

he station appeared with a huge trunk on his shoulder and a large valise in his hand. These he deposited in the stranger's room and then went back for more, until four had been carried in. But wh

m positively stumbling over them now. Surely there must be some

Harold heard the sliding of the bolt as