d glad to have appeared."

"But suppose," said Olivia merrily, "that when I have eaten a
pomegranate or a potato or something in Yaque I forget all about
America? And when you step out of the jar I say 'Off with his head,'
by mistake. How shall I know it is you when the jar is opened?"

"I shall ask you what the population of Yaque is," he assured her,
"and how the island compares with Manhattan, and if this is your
first visit, and how you are enjoying your stay; and then you will
recognize the talk of civilization and spare me."

"No," she protested, "I've longed to say 'Off with his head' to too
many people who have said all that to me. And you mustn't say that a
holiday always seems like Sunday, either."

Whereat they both laughed, and it seemed an uncommonly pleasant
world, and even the sad errand that was taking Olivia to Yaque
looked like a hope.

Then the talk ran on pleasantly, and things went very briskly
forward, and there was no dearth of fleet little smiles at this and
that. What was she to bring him from Yaque--a pet ibis? No, he had
no taste for ibises--unless indeed there should be Fourth-Dimension
ibises; and even then he begged that she would select instead a
magic field-glass, with which one might see what is happening at an
infinite distance; although of what use would that be to him, he
wanted to know, since it would be his too late to follow her
errantry through Yaque? They felt, as they talked, quite like the
puppets of the days of Haroun-al-Raschid; only the puppets, poor
children of mere magic, had not the traditions of the golden age of
science for a setting, and were obliged to content themselves with
mere tricks of jars of genii instead of applied electricity and its
daring. What an Arabian Nights' Entertainment we might have had if
only Scheherazade had ever heard of the Present! As for the
thousand-and-one-nights, they would not have contained all her
invention. No wonder that the time went trippingly for the two who
were concerned in such bewildering speculation as the prince had
made possible and who were furthering acquaintanceship besides.

"Ah, well now, at all events," begged St. George at length, "will
you remember something while you are away?"

"Your kindness, always," she returned.

"But will you remember," said St. George with his boy's eagerness,
"that there is some one who hopes no less than you for your success,
and who will be infinitely proud of any command at all