That's the queer part of it, ain't it ?" "I'll admit it has an agreeable sound to me," said Rosalie, with a shadow of a smile on her trembling lips.

"It seems ghastly, though." "Well, anyhow, it's part of somebody's scheme to get you out of this country altogether.

You are to be taken away on a ship, across the ocean, I think.

Paris or London, mebby, and you are never to come back to the United States.

Never, that's what I'm told." [Illustration: "She shrank back from another blow which seemed impending"] Rosalie was speechless, stunned.