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group with a smile. "In Xingu?" she gently prompted. A thrill ran through the other members. They exchanged confused glances, and then, with one accord, turned a gaze of mingled relief and interrogation on their rescuer. The expression of each denoted a different phase of the same emotion. Mrs. Plinth was the first to compose her features to an air of reassurance: after a moment's hasty adjustment her look almost implied that it was she who had given the word to Mrs. Ballinger. "Xingu, of course!" exclaimed the latter with her accus- tomed promptness, while Miss Van Vluyck and Laura Glyde seemed to be plumbing the depths of memory, and Mrs. Leveret, feeling apprehensively for Appropriate Allusions, was somehow reassured by the uncomfortable pressure of its bulk against her person. Osric Dane's change of countenance was no less striking than that of her entertainers. She too put down her cof- feecup, but with a look of distinct annoyance; she too wore, for a brief moment, what Mrs. Roby afterward de- scribed as the look of feeling for something in the back of her head; and before she could dissemble these momen- tary signs of weakness, Mrs. Roby, turning to her with a deferential smile, had said: "And we've been so hoping that to-day you would tell us just what you think of it." Osric Dane received the homage of the smile as a matter of course; but the accompanying question obviously em- barrassed her, and it became clear to her observers that she was not quick at shifting her facial scenery. It was HYLAND