" i Hi. no !" The visitor smooths llie folds ol her dress indignantly. " 1 never take no noiic- ~, anybody; they could wear furiy ilioiisand million new gray mnnles .ind I should never pass any remark, hut this woman's manner some how »>h. and 1 must tell you this lot. This will amuse vmi. I know."

The wii of St. Cecilia is Number K'ghl. down mi ihe left-hand side, jus! under flic window. Number Kight has no one to see her to-day. bur visitors from ovei crowded bedsides go Io Number Kight and hold an overflow meeting and listen io her. Number Kight ii is who. uti tl'e nights when a screen is placed round a bed and Number something >s p resell th wheeled silently oin at ihe end, and the numbers on either side of the empty bed cry a good deal it is Number Kight. I say. who siis up in bed and with a

cockney accent chaffs the others, ami rallies elderly Number Twenn on a suppositious affection for die youngest student, and :tsks riddles, .and brings back to St. ' 'eciliil lliosl excellent spirits.
" i >h. we do "ave some rare lark- here" Number Kight clicks her longile help les.sly ;is one whose Words fail, ami makes die visitors feel dial ihe\ arc indeed mit'ni'tiiii.-i:<> in being quite well.
