" Bedient trailed the soft-footed oriental through the bewildering hall, until he saw Señor Rey standing in a doorwayand behind him a low-lit arcanum of leather and metal....

The remains are gathered up by men wearing shrouds and net masks, and the peaceful Oriental who was not doing a thing hut attending strictly to his own business, is soon reduced to ashes.

Among other remarks on Americans, I have heard many of my countrymen say, "Look how they run after lords!"It is quite true; a live lord is a comparative novelty, and they run after him in the same way as people in England run after an Indian prince, or any pretentious Oriental: it is an Anglo-Saxon mania.

" The supple Oriental grinned and made obeisances, pretended not to know "The Rogue's March" (to the hen-house), and went off playing "Johnny Comes Marching Home."