All Night at Mr. Stanyhurst's

d the head in drunken pantomime, while she said thickly : 'Tip-tip-tippled the roast burnt, and the soup boiled over, and the cat scalded, and the kitchen afire.' The girl made vague weak gestures with delightful, delicate hands. Then, thrusting a little bare breast back under the chemise, she became agile. Slipping a beautiful China smock over the curls and pretty shift, and pushing the toes into frail slippers, Lucy, after a glance at a diminutive French clock, quickly went and pulled a silken bell-cord.

'You'll likely have to wait until seven or eight, Cluny,' she told him, 'but la, that don't matter, I daresay.' She naughtily, deliciously laughed. 'There'll be time for you to confess, if that's what you're after. Blessed Jesus, even a cassock'd be shocked at what you've got to tell. There's not many's indulged in such depravities as you, my man. The holy person'll know I've been kissed, that's certain. This swollen lip's not going to be anything like natural yet awhile. A savage, that's what you ar