d Phantom of Delight

girls for my benefit the other evening. If I remember rightly he said that there were four handsome ones in the district. What were their names? Florrie Woods, Melissa Foster—no, Melissa Palmer— Emma Scott, and Jennie May Ferguson. Can she be one of them? No, it is a flagrant waste of time and gray matter supposing it. That girl couldn’t be a Florrie or a Melissa or an Emma, while Jennie May is completely out of the ques- tion. Well, there is some bewitchment in the affair. Of that I’m convinced. So I’d better forget all about it.”

But Eric found that it was impossible to forget all about it. The more he tried to forget, the more keenly and insistently he remembered. The girl’s exquisite face haunted him and the mystery of her tan- talized him.

True, he knew that, in all likelihood, he might easily solve the problem by asking the Williamsons about her. But somehow,

to his own surprise, he found that he 67