Mon Dieu, she is wonderful--and a face all fire!" Presently she came out of the cage, followed by two great lions.

She walked round the ring, a hand on the head of each: one growling, the other purring against her, with a ponderous kind of affection.

She talked to them as they went, giving occasionally a deep purring sound like their own.

Her talk never ceased.

She looked at the audience, but only as in a dream.