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I know not whether the following version of her story will retain any

portion of its pristine character; but, as Zenobia told it wildly and

rapidly, hesitating at no extravagance, and dashing at absurdities

which I a it the varied emphasis of

her inimitable voice, and the pictorial illustration of her ht the freshest aro out of her end seemed quite a remarkable affair I scarcely

knew, at the tih or beto end, it was undeniable

nonsense, but not necessarily the worse for that

THE SILVERY VEIL You have heard, rew suddenly

so very faht how

remarkable it was that this marvellous creature should vanish, all at

once, while her renoas on the increase, before the public had groeary of her, and when the enig

solved, presented itself more mystically at every exhibition? Her last

appearance, as you knoas before a crowded audience The next

evening,--although the bills had announced her, at the corner of every

street, in red letters of a gigantic size,--there was no Veiled Lady to