"Yes," she acknowledged, "but hardly, I fear, your gratitude."

And the answer astonished her.

"I am not sure that the real Alicia will not make her father
happier than the unreal one has ever done."

"And Captain Holliday?"

"He may come to feel the same."

"Then I do not quit in disgrace?"

"You depart with my thanks."

When a certain personage was told of the success of Miss
Strange's latest manoeuvre, he remarked: "The little one
progresses. We shall have to give her a case of prime importance
next."

END OF PROBLEM I


PROBLEM II

THE SECOND BULLET

"You must see her."

"No. No."