"It is part of my business to fit them. Two dollars and a quarter. Here, cash!" Eglah's desire to mention the chorister of St. Hyacinth's was quickly extinguished by the pronouncedly repellent bearing that plainly proclaimed all intercourse must be restricted to the business of the counter, and as she returned to the carriage, Mr. Herriott said: "Well, you college girls are nothing if not severely classical, so I presume you will offer a ewe lamb, all garlanded with willow and dittany, and prinked out in pomegranate blossoms, on the Junonian altar." "I am glad Jove tied her hands and hung her up above the earth and below the heavens, with anvils on her ankles, where she could do no more mischief. That goddess of yours has the most cruelly cold, hard face I ever looked at, and yet--in a way--so beautiful. Evidently she has not even the shadow of a soul--must have given it all to that angelic boy? What is her history? Of course she has one." "It has been said happy women have none, and in this case adversity must have curdled very early the stream of her youthful joys. Vandiver investigated her--from a distance he says, as she froze him when he attempted acquaintanceship. He has a protege in the constabulary who learned through police channels all that she will allow to be known of her life. Some years ago she drifted here from the far West--part of the human flotsam annually stranded in this city, and she found work in a cloak manufactory. Later she incited a strike among the cloak cutters, which resulted disastrously for the workers, and when all the strikers submitted, she alone was refused re-employment, and doors were closed against her. She secured a position in a large bric-a-brac establishment, but when a valuable antique vase disappeared, she was suspected and arrested. While in prison a day and night awaiting trial, the vase was found in a pawnbroker's shop, and the colored porter of the bric-a-brac dealer acknowledged the theft. The firm very honorably made ample public retraction of the unjust charge, and endeavored to compensate and appease the injured woman, but she shook the dust of the house from her feet and betook herself to Brooklyn. Recently she accepted her present place." "Do you mean to imply that she is--is--Bohemian?"