so to her own at the cafe.

Here, again, Bill was obliged to loiter three long hours, and then a
woman passed him so close that her face was distinctly visible, and
entered the place. He recognised her at once as the woman of the
'tired' face, though she was now dressed quite smartly and with no
remnant of the Oriental in her costume. This I gathered from his
description of her attire, which, while it failed to give things their
proper names as set down in the books of fashion, was sufficiently
vivid, and enabled me to easily recognise the person who had aided the
little brunette by impersonating Miss Jenrys the night before. She had
entered the cafe and disappeared again through a side-door, to return,
before long, in company with the brunette. They had then partaken of a
hearty meal at one of the cafe tables, and had entered the Fair
grounds at dusk.

'I didn't have no trouble a-trackin' 'em, though I had been dreadin' a
reg'lar bo-peep dance, seein' how late 'twas gettin'. But they jest
sa-auntered along, quite slow, only I noticed they was always careful
not to git into no strong lights; they kept on the shady side of
things,'specially the tallest one with the big cow-boy hat. So I jest
monkeyed round till I see 'em start to go round the 'Lectricity
B'ildin'. Then I jest slipped over between the 'Lectric an' Mines, ye
know, and come ahead of 'em jest as they turned to'rds the bridges. I
tell ye,' he declared with enthusiasm in a bad cause, they couldn't
'a' struck a better place 'an that there second bridge! First, there's
the t'other bridge, and that little island on one side, and most
everybody goin' round the Mines on t'other side, 'cause 'twas best
lighted; then there was them little bushy islands, an' all that lagoon
on the west of 'em; an' on the east not a speck of light, 'cept a few
clean acrost to the Lib'ral Arts shop, and most all them little lamps
on the island gone out. I tell ye, Mr. Masters, I felt sort o' glad
when I seen ye come acrost an' hide in the bushes.'

'Oh, you saw me, did you?' I said, to hasten him on.

'I should say! I was a-layin' flat 'longside of them little shrubs on
the other side the path, right where you turned off.'

'Well, go on, Bill.'

'Wal, sir, I was so busy watchin' them women that I didn't notice
nothin' else 'cept you an' the guard--of course I thought he was
tendin' to his biz. When they stopped to talk on the bridge, I begun
to crawl along closte to the bridge, a