ue from Jeanne's lips and restored the

" Their hostess abruptly broke the

es

owbo

es

it br

hesitated. "I

The boat will drift across the bay. I have a rowboat. Perhaps you wou

od that she was to be left alone in this windowless cab

ned to Jeanne. "You will be more conte

sure they were out of hearing distance, she closed

nd herself possessed of the idea that s

rself. She searched in vain for doors l

made of oak paneling, very well executed and polished to the last degree. The fireplace was massive. It was b

re there is no light?" she

onscious for the first time of a faint flush

found herself staring at a very broad do

the cabins of ships," she t

into a commodious chair and at once fell into a reveri

as she reviewed it here in the dim

impoverished by the war. The war had left her an orphan. Possessed only of a pet bear, she had looked about for some means of su

been chosen from many other dancers to represent the wanderers

en-eyed jealousy of other gypsies, she had ach

cans sat in a box that night. One wa

e air, passed from one movement to another in her bewitching dance, one of

the other had

st hav

wi

side of a great lake, reveled in the dream of flitting through her gypsy dance with two thousand Americ

s," she now murmured, as she

me conscious once more of dim light and night. Not alone

y to divine the presence of those she knew, even when they were some distance away. Was it mental telepathy? Did these others think, and were their thoughts carried by who knows what pow

There must be gypsies near,

sies. They did not so much as know that such people existed. This section of the country, where the greater p

id with convictio