itedly interposed.

"I beg your pardon, I have not acknowledged the crime of theft--I
simply stated that I was fortunate enough to find the document in
question."

"It seems to me that that is a distinction without a difference," he
sneered.

"One can hardly be accused of stealing what rightly belongs to one's
self," Mrs. Weld composedly said.

"What--what on earth can you mean? Explain yourself."

"Certainly; that is exactly what I came here to do," she answered, as,
with a dexterous movement, she tore the glasses from her eyes, and
swept the moles from her face, after which she snatched the cap and
wig from her head, and stood before her companion revealed as Isabel
Stewart herself.

"Good Heaven!" he gasped, then sank back upon his chair, staring in
blank amazement at her.

Mrs. Stewart seized this opportunity to again slip from the room, and
when she returned, a few minutes later, her superabundance of cellular
tissue (?) had disappeared and she was her own peerless self once
more.

She quietly resumed her seat, gravely remarking, as she did so:

"A woman who has been wronged as you have wronged me, Gerald Goddard,
will risk a great deal to re-establish her good name. When I first
learned of your whereabouts I thought I would go and boldly demand
that certificate of you. I tried to meet you in society here, but,
strange to say, I failed in this attempt, for, as it happened, neither
you nor your--Anna Correlli frequented the places where I was
entertained, although I did meet Monsieur Correlli two or three times.
Then I saw that advertisement for a housekeeper to go out to Wyoming,
to take charge of your house during a mid-winter frolic; and, prompted
by a feeling of curiosity to learn something of your private life with
the woman who had supplanted me, I conceived the idea of applying for
the situation and thus trying to obtain that certificate by strategy.
How did I know that it was you who advertised?" she interposed, as Mr.
Goddard looked up inquiringly. "Because I chanced to overhear some one
say that the Goddards were going out of town for the same purpose as
that which your notice mentioned. So I disguised myself, as you have
seen, went to your office, found I was right, and secured the
position."

"Now I know why I was so startled that day, when you dropped your
glasses in the dining-room," groaned the wretched man.

"Yes; I saw that you had never forgotten the eyes which you used to
call your