The Veiled Lady

at work concocting plans for its undoing. Marny was the one man in the group that would not be pacified; nothing that either Pud

If I had known what you fellows were up to I'd have pitched you all over the dike. Cost Joppy a lot of money and break up all

ink he'd take it

is that Joppy is a thoroughbred and you never saw one of his kind in your life. Ever since he got here you've done nothing but jum

pt the ball of conversation rolling-had started it many times-and none of the others could fill his place. Certain of his views became respected. "As dear old Joppy used to say," was a common expression, and "By Jove, he

, and who was at Carlsbad, begging him to run up and see the "best ever" and "one of us"-and Malone never l

keep in touch with the exile and pave the way for his homecoming. If Joppy was ill, which he doubted, some of the German experts in whom the Bostonian believed would find the cause and the reme

, after being put on a strict diet, had been douched, pounded and rubbed; was then on his second week of treatment; had one more to serve; was at the moment feeling

as addressed to Stebbins. This last was authent

verdict; hot douches and complete rest packed in wet compresses, the next. I am losing flesh, of course, but it is only the "deadwood" of the body, so to speak. This Dr. Stuffen expects to replace with new shoots-predicts I will w

dn't let any Schweizerkase with a hot douche get within a hundred yards of me, but then I'm not a bunch of nerves like Joppy. Anyhow

t suggested meeting him in Rotterdam and having a night of it. Malone thought of chartering a steam launch, hiring a band and brin

der the old Gate of William of Orange, and so on to the door of the inn; the appointment of Tine, dressed in a Zeeland costume belonging to her grand-mother,

Cavalier, Stebbins got up as a Night Watch, and Malone in the costume of a Man-at-Arms-all costumes loaned for the occasion by the antiquary in the next street-were to

ures; while Mynheer, Tine and Johann were to concentrate their energies in preparing a dinner the like of which had never been eaten since the sluiceways in the dikes drowned out the Spanish duke. Not a w