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We could hear his voice plainly on the staircase. "Hello! Who is it? Oh, good evening, Miss Fraenkel yes, do. We're not going out to-night. How long will you be? Right. Good-bye." "She'll be up in half an hour," he said, going back to his easel. I was by no means certain that Miss Fraenkel would be able to help us to forecast accurately the future instalments of the Carville history.

They made matters worse by harping on my imagination. And they capped all by declaring that I was a bad man and hoped I would keep my evil thoughts to myself at the Festive Season. It is here that Miss Fraenkel interposed, all unconsciously, and became the cause of our presence at a most singular catastrophe, the collapse of the aeroplane in the snow.

Gustav Born suggested, and Fraenkel tested the suggestion experimentally, that the corpus luteum of pregnancy is a gland of internal secretion whose function is to cause the attachment of the ovum in the uterus and the normal development of uterus and placenta.

A foul murder had been committed a short time back by a gambler named Fraenkel, yet she would have laughed at the suggestion that such a coincidence should cause her any annoyance. "I don't get it," she said, smiling, and we saw plainly enough that she did not get it. We were crushed. I explained in more detail the reason for which we had ventured to connect the two stories.

In self-defence we changed the subject, for it was plain that when it came to making photo-plays we held a very poor hand. Moreover, we saw that Miss Fraenkel did not and could not take our ponderous interest in Mrs. Carville seriously.

Miss Fraenkel had fared no better. Evidently he was not "held" for something with which his wife had "got away." We were all ridiculously wrong and ought to be ashamed of ourselves. And so we were; avoiding mention of him, and devoting our attention to the fish, for it was Friday, and we kept it religiously.

She stepped briskly into the room, looked round and smiled. "Three times," she declared as I assisted her to remove her jacket. "But I forgive you if you'll only play that won derful thing again!" In person Miss Fraenkel was of middle size, admirably proportioned and situated in tone on the borderland between the blonde and the brunette.

"And " went on Miss Fraenkel, making little motions with her hands as though she were trying to catch something that eluded her grasp. "And oh! he's being held for some game in New York. She's got away with it, you see." Miss Fraenkel waited for this appalling development to sink into our minds.

I've got to get the five o'clock train, and the wife she said she'd have a bit of tea ready for me at four." He sat at the far end of the verandah, the furled hammock tickling his ears, and he shifted the chair so that he faced north, looking towards his own house. As he opened his mouth to replace his pipe, Bill opened the door and led Miss Fraenkel out to be introduced.