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 ing exhausted the money which her grandfather had supplied, had sold Chenontresor.

This fact was so certain to her and yet so astounding and so completely without meaning, that she did not confide it even to Barney. Later on, she knew she would; but to-night she kept it her own secret while, with Barney and her cousin Bennet—and followed by the man whom her grandfather had hired to watch her—she went to the house of the medium Davol to speak to and hear from her father, who was dead, and from whomsoever else among the dead had anything to say to Barney or to herself.