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Unfortunately his roos and cos were always open to observation But he noted that aat one end of the upper hall overlooked a sloping, tile-roofed shed, and that the garden wall behind the hotel premises was not provided with those barbarous spikes or broken bottles which decorate so ress when the time should come to use it In this hall, moreover, directly opposite his door there was an oil bracket-laoing out, a fact which the young , several days after his arrival, a sudden rain-storm drove O'Reilly indoors, and as he ascended to his room he saw that the laust of wind It was very dark outside; he reasoned that the streets would be deserted Hastily securing that book which Alvarado, the dentist, had given him, he took a position close inside his door When he heard the spy pass and enter the next chamber he stole out into the hall and breathed into the lah theand orking his way down the shed roof, praying that his movements had not been seen and that the tiles were fir in sheets and he et to the skin when he dropped into the patio; nevertheless he was laughing to himself He nimbly scaled the wall, crossed an inclosure, climbed a second wall, and descended into a dark side street Taking advantage of the densest shadows and the nu balconies, he set out at a brisk trot

A light showed through the barred s of the Alvarado ho O'Reilly laid hold of the latch; then, without knocking, he opened the front door and stepped in

He found hied, sparsely furnished roolazed floor of Spanish mosaics His sudden appearance threw the occupants into alarm: a wonacio Alvarado hi: "Who are you?"

"I'reeable se he had carried beneath his arm "I come from your brother Tomas He askedit with his thanks"