ion even with a sky map and a telescope," Archie
roused himself to protest.

Something very unlike a star but more like the glimmer of a match in a
room on the third floor held his fascinated gaze, and it was difficult
to be interested in the conversation of even so pretty a girl as Miss
Seebrook when an audacious thief was at work only a little way beyond
her. For all Archie knew it was her own room that the venturesome
Governor was ransacking and at that very moment he might be stuffing his
pockets with her belongings.

Venus, Archie gravely announced, had always been his favorite star; and
he set her to searching for it in the bright expanse while he watched
the Governor reappear, bending low as he crept out of the window and
ascended rapidly to the fourth floor. He had risked detection by a dozen
people who were idling about the garden. The intermission was over and
music floating through the open windows again invited to the dance.

"We must go back, I suppose," said Miss Seebrook with a sigh.

"I shall never forget this," declared Archie, hoping with all his heart
that there would be no occasion for regretting the hour spent in the
garden.

They danced again, and in the handclapping that followed the first
number he turned to find the Governor, calm and with no marks of his
escapade upon him, bowing before Miss Seebrook.

"Really, I must break in! Just a little fragment of this waltz! More
capricious and jazzy measures have their day but the waltz endures
forever! Don't frown at me that way, Comly! My old friend kept me longer
than I expected and the night grows old."

The Governor danced with smoothness and ease. Archie, his back to the
wall, saw the rogue laughing into his partner's face as lightheartedly
as though he had not, within a few minutes, imperiled his freedom in an
act of sheerest folly.

He brought the girl back to Archie, and then ingratiated himself with a
shy elderly woman who was having a difficult time finding partners for
her granddaughters. The Governor introduced himself with a charming
deference, a winning courtesy, that gained her heart at once. He not
only danced with her young charges but found other partners for them.
Archie marveled; a man of the Governor's intelligence and address could
hardly have failed to gain a high place in the world, yet his
performance on the fire escape proved all the man had said of himself as
an outlaw. The Governor was not one man but a dozen differ