Now, go." "You have forgotten my news," he said: "It is bad news for the Gorgio daughter of the Romany Ry." She was silent in apprehension.

He waited, but she did not speak.
"The Gorgio of Gorgios of the Sagalac has had a fall," he said.
Her heart beat fast for an instant, and then the presentiment came to her that the man spoke the truth.

In the presence of the accomplished thing, she became calm.
"What has happened ?" she asked quietly.
"He went prowling in Manitou, and in Barbazon's Tavern they struck him down." "Who struck him down ?" she asked.

It seemed to her that the night-bird sang so loud that she could scarcely hear her own voice.
"A drunken Gorgio," he replied.

"The horseshoe is for luck all the world over, and it brought its luck to Manitou to-night.