And why not?yet ... why did she call herself Miss Slade at the boarding-house and Mrs. Marlow in her business capacity?

They found Slade in profound slumber.

" "I shall have something to say to Mr. Slade on our return," said the captain crisply.

"And youI beg your pardonyourerfriends disposed of the doctor in the same way?" "Handy Solomon," replied Slade with shaking lips.

It's strange that I never identified him before with the Slade of the Laughing Lass.

That's just the way he hauled Tom Slade into the troop, head over heels.

2. That he did not look upon Slade as a juggler, but accepted the objective reality of the facts; that he did this, however, not on the strength of his own observations, for these were unsatisfactory, but because he had faith in Professor Zoellner's powers of observation.

"Now, I had a minister friend up in town, Father Slade by name.

I remembered something Mr. Ellsworth said to Tom Slade about not caring more for his gun than he did for his country.

"But this parcel, gentlemen, was recently confided by Miss Slade to the care of the manageress of the Pompadour, to be put in the hotel safefrom which it was produced to me twenty minutes ago.