I A duenna accompanied the fair one’s
! family, and to her especial keeping
i was intrusted the person oi the heir
ess. I ler espionage never slept, though
the chains she hound about her charge
were silken ones. Her eyes never
! wandered too far away, and she dis
covered the secret by watching Ida’s
actions. She noticed that the young
lady dawdled an unconscionable time
over her soup with the French desig
nation. and she noticed also that she
(the duenna) never received the same
kind of souu that was served to her
charge. Suspicion was a roused. Could
it he that Miss Ida’s soup was made of
some love-charm? She would watch.
She took occasion to move her seat to
Ida’s side and made a discovery that
| almost paralyzed her vigin heart. The
little particles in Ida's soup were let
ters of the alphabet, and on the very
i first day she read this sentence:
j“S w e-e-t, AI f o-u s o 1 o-v e-s
| the e;” and this: “I t-a I y a w a i t s
] h-e-r <1 u e-e-n.”
i Our duenna was circumspect. She
made no sign, but concluded to await
further developments. The next day
she read in Ida's soup these words:
"Fly w i-t-h y-o-u-r A 1 f-o-n-so to
il i-g-h-t.” It was plainly time to act.
