Only man I ever knew that could keep Carlotta in order.

" "Two years from now, and long before, I shall be married," said Carlotta with a sharp little metallic note in her voice.

Had he made Carlotta as the rich young man, cumbered her with so many worldly possessions and standards that by his own hand he was keeping her out of the heaven of happiness she might have otherwise inherited?

"My, but Tony is pretty to-night!" murmured Carlotta to Alan, who chanced to be standing near her as her friend fluttered by with Dick.

The lad had done without Carlotta for two months now.

Upon the flyleaf was written: 'To dearest Carlotta on attaining her majority.

Thinks I, here's trouble, and Miss Carlotta at the concert.

I tackled Carlotta about it.

I'm simply telling you Phil Lambert is the man that ought to marry her, and if he doesn't get on to the job almighty quick that pop-eyed simpleton over there will be prancing down the aisle to Lohengrin with Carlotta before Christmas, and the jig will be up.

[Illustration: MIRAMAR Long the home of the ex-Empress Carlotta of Mexico]