"The deuce they are!" he exclaimed; "and which is--" he began,
eagerly, and then remembering himself, dropped back on the
cushions of the hansom.

He broke into the little dining-room at Cox's in so excited a
state that two dignified old gentlemen who were eating there
sat open-mouthed in astonished disapproval. Mrs. Downs and
Miss Morris had just come down stairs.

"I have seen her!" Carlton cried, ecstatically; "only half an
hour in the town, and I've seen her already!"

"No, really?" exclaimed Miss Morris. "And how did she look?
Is she as beautiful as you expected?"

"Well, I can't tell yet," Carlton answered.

"There were three of them, and they were all muffled up, and
which one of the three she was I don't know. She wasn't
labelled, as in the picture, but she was there, and I saw her.
The woman I love was one of that three, and I have engaged
rooms at the hotel, and this very night the same roof shelters
us both."



II


"The course of true love certainly runs smoothly with you,"