personally I am not able to give you any information which
would assist you in tracing them."

"Yes," said the Duke. "Well, then, I shall keep them until I
can learn more; and if we can learn nothing, I shall return
them to the dealer."

Carlton met Miss Morris that afternoon in a state of great
excitement. "It's come!" he cried--"it's come! I am to meet
her this week. I have met her brother, and he has asked me to
dine with them on Thursday night; that's the day before they
leave for Athens; and he particularly mentioned that his
sisters would be at the dinner, and that it would be a
pleasure to present me. It seems that the eldest paints, and
all of them love art for art's sake, as their father taught
them to do; and, for all we know, he may make me court
painter, and I shall spend the rest of my life at Grasse
painting portraits of the Princess Aline, at the age of
twenty-two, and at all future ages. And if he does give me a
commission to paint her, I can tell you now in confidence that
that picture will require more sittings than any other picture
ever painted by man. Her hair will have turned white by the
time it is finished, and the gown she started to pose in will
have become forty years behind the fashion!"

On the morning following, Carlton and Mrs. Downs and her
niece, with all the tourists in Constantinople, were placed in
open carriages by their dragomans, and driven in a long
procession to the Seraglio to see the Sultan's treasures.
Those of them who had waited two weeks for this chance looked