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"It's been everywhere else," she said loudly to the accusing, still,

so the lih byways and highways Aion of the three-

balled porticoes The shop of one Max Solstein attracted her, and she

entered his open door Max, rat-eyed and frog-imme on this?" came with directness from the small

iaraze

inspection

"Not worth much A quarter of a dollar"

Arasp and fled Not because of his low-

figured offer; she had fully expected to have to "beat him up" But when

she had entered, a youth who had all the recognized earht of the uplifted gar a story She knew his kind fro lady and Lord

Algernon In the lore of the stage at Barlow's, reporters were "hovering

vultures" who always dropped dohen least wanted, and they had a way

of dragging to light the innerhts of their victiernon had dramatically declared, "in

blazoned headlines"

Hitherto Amarilly had effectually silenced her instinctive rebellion

against the profaning of St John's surplice, but she had reached the