The documentwhich you and I can both see as plainly before our eyes at this instant as though it were inlet us say your hands, ordu Laurier's, if he were herethat document is far too important even to name within hearing of other ears.

The document I speak of is the one you took out of the Foreign Office the other day, when you called on yourfriend, Monsieur le Vicomte du Laurier.

" "If I make any accusation, it's less against you than du Laurier.

I've waited, and held my hand until now, because I wanted to see you before doing a thing which would mean certain ruin for du Laurier.

Quickly I named over in my mind such men in the French Foreign Office as were in a position to discover the disappearance of any document under Raoul du Laurier's charge.

You asked me to hear what you had to say to-night, and I have heard it; so there's no reason why I shouldn't press the electric bell for my chauffeur to stop, and" "Do you know that you're pronouncing du Laurier's doom, to say nothing of your own?" "No.

"You are afraid that du Laurier may find out," he said.

So why should I suppose you would rather du Laurier didn't know?

I hardly thought you'd receive me into your carriage at the theatre, so I took the precaution of warning du Laurier that he needn't expect to see that.

" "Raoul du Laurier would scorn to spy upon me!"

"As a proof of what I say," Godensky went on, "du Laurier did wait, did hear from me the place where you were to stop and pick me up.

I've heard that du Laurier is a fine shot, and that very few men in Paris can touch him with the foils.

Have you seen du Laurier?"

I hope, at least, that du Laurier knows about the necklace?"

It would be a calamity for Maxine if du Laurier should hear a sound, and insist on having the door opened, after she had given him the impression (if she had not said it in so many words) that there was no stranger in the house.

For a moment or two she and du Laurier talked together so excitedly that I might have made another attack on the window without great risk; and I was meditating the attempt when suddenly the voices ceased.

They were Maxine and, no doubt, du Laurier.

Du Laurier's answer was lost to me, but his voice sounded despondent.

I hurried out of the street, lest du Laurier should, by any chance, follow on quickly: and my first thought was to go immediately back to my hotel, where Girard might by now have arrived with news.

But for the fear that du Laurier might be still with Maxine, I should have rushed back to her house for a moment, just long enough to give her the good news.

As it was, I had very little doubt that the rat of a man I had chanced to protect in the railway carriage was no other than the extraordinarily expert thief who had relieved du Laurier of the Duchess's necklace.

oh le vent me mene, Sans me plaindre ou m'effrayer; Je vais où va toute chose, Oh va la fenille de rose Et la feuille de laurier.]

For the Entertainment at the Alhambra on the 30th, the following artistes, among others, have generously volunteered their services: Miss VIOLET LORAINE, Miss PHYLLIS MONCKMAN, Miss WISH WYNNE, Miss ESMÉ BERINGER, Messrs. LAURI DE FRECE, MARK LESTER, HERBERT GROVER and GEORGE ROBEY.

"Where Virgil says, Lauri et myricae flevêre, the figure's beautiful; where Mr. D. says, the laurel stands in tears, And hung with humid pearls, the lowly shrub appears, the figure is lost, and a foolish and impertinent representation comes in its place; an ordinary dewy morning might fill the laurels and shrubs with Mr. D.'s tears, though Gallus had not been concerned in it.

Orfeo seeks to clasp 'his half regain'd Eurydice,' with the triumphant cry of Ovid holding the conquered Corinna in his arms: Ite triumphales circum mea tempora lauri.