and said: `Carlton, I wish you would present me to your young
American friend. I admire her very much,' I would probably
say: `Do you? Well, you will have to wait until she
expresses some desire to meet you.' No; etiquette is all
right in itself, only some people don't know its laws, and
that is the one instance to my mind where ignorance of the law
is no excuse."

Carlton left Miss Morris talking with the Secretary of the
American Legation, and went to look for Mrs. Downs. When he
returned he found that the young Secretary had apparently
asked and obtained permission to present the Duke's equerries
and some of his diplomatic confreres, who were standing now
about her in an attentive semicircle, and pointing out the
different palaces and points of interest. Carlton was
somewhat disturbed at the sight, and reproached himself with
not having presented any one to her before. He was sure now
that she must have had a dull time of it; but he wished,
nevertheless, that if she was to meet other men, the Secretary
had allowed him to act as master of ceremonies.

"I suppose you know," that gentleman was saying as Carlton
came up, "that when you pass by Abydos, on the way to Athens,
you will see where Leander swam the Hellespont to meet Hero.
That little white light-house is called Leander in honor of
him. It makes rather an interesting contrast--does it
not?--to think of that chap swimming along in the dark, and
then to find that his monument to-day is a lighthouse, with
revolving lamps and electric appliances, and with ocean tramps
and bridges and men-of-war around it. We have improved in our