daughter!

    '

     Thy Grandmother.

    '

    10

   From the use of the word

    daric

   I conjecture that Leonora's ancestress lived under the Persian Empire. There or thereabout.—M. M.

   'There, Polly, what do you say to

    that

   ?' said Nora.

   'Your grandmother!' I replied.

   'Polly!' said Miss Nora, looking at me with quite needlessly flashing eyes, 'you and I will set out on the search for this unhappy mummied one.'

   'Don't you think the critics will call the

    motive

   rather thin?' I demurred.

   'Thin, to rescue my ancestress from a curse!' said Leonora.

   'There's just one other thing,' she mused. 'Shall we take a low comedy character this time, or not?'

   'Let's take Ustâni,' I proposed, 'he can double the part with that of the Faithful Black! A great saving in hotel bills and railway fares.'

   CHAPTER IV.

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