We made a light and the first thing that Lovetree saw was the Bible, and Athalia's name--her age and birth-place and the age and names of her father and mother and grandfather and grandmother, a complete family record. I thought the man would go crazy. It would have made him nearly crazy if he had found her an inmate here, as much lost to shame as those we had just been carousing with, and now to find that she was not here put him into a perfect agony. He thought he could not live till morning without seeing her. At first we thought of going directly to Mrs. May's but then we recollected we did not know where she lived and could not find out, for I had lost her card that Stella gave me. Finally we concluded to go down and talk a minute in the same kind of sang froid manner, to keep up our assumed characters and then go home and await coming events. We were rallied as we entered the room with a jeering laugh at not being able to bring one woman between us both. Then I pretended to get angry at being sent upon a fool's errand, to a room where nobody was at home. At that Mrs. Laylor started. "Was she not in the room?" "No, nor has not been lately. You are playing tricks with the wrong persons, trying to fool us." "Indeed, gentlemen, upon my honor it is no trick." She rang the servants' bell violently. "Martha, do you know where Lucy Smith is? She is not in her room. Have you let her out to-night?" "No, ma'am. I have not let anybody out but that sewing woman." "Where is Kate? Send Kate up. Kate have you let anybody out to-night?" "Yes, ma'am. I let that sewing woman out." "You let her out! Martha says she let her out." "So I did." "And so did I." "Both of you." "I did." "Well, I did." "You have let out the ----. Get out of the room, you stupid Irish ----s. You have let out the sewing woman, sure enough. I have lost my bet which I made with Frank, of a hundred dollars that I would keep her here till she would not want to go away."