the extreme of summer costume:--a white grass-cloth coat,
about the consistency of blotting-paper, so transparent that the lilac
pattern of his check shirt was distinctly visible through the arms of
it; white duck vest, white drilled trousers, long-napped white hat, a
speckled cravat to match his shirt, and highly varnished shoes, with red
and white striped silk stockings,--altogether very fresh and
innocent-looking. He came to show them the principal spring, which was
not far from the hotel--just a pleasant walk before breakfast, though
it was not likely they would meet many people so early, on account of
last night's ball.

"I am afraid your quarters were not very comfortable," said Harry, as
the three strolled arm-in-arm down a sufficiently sandy road; "but we
shall have better rooms before dinner to-day."

"The house must be very full," Ashburner remarked; "and were there not a
great many arrivals this morning? From the noise I heard, I thought at
least fifty people had come."

"No; I glanced at the book, and there were not a dozen names on it.
Hallo!" and Benson swore roundly in Spanish, apparently forgetting that
his friend understood that language.

Ashburner looked up, and saw meeting them a large Frenchman and a small
Irish boy. The Frenchman had an immense quantity of hair of all sorts on
his face, nearly hiding his features, which, as what was visible of them
had a particularly villainous air, was about the best thing he could
have done to them; and on his head he carried a something of felt, which
indisputably proved the proposition that matter may exist without form.
The Irish youth sported a well-meant, but not very successful attempt at
a moustache, and a black cloth cap pitched on one side of his head. In
other respects, they were attired in the usual costume of an American
snob; that is to say, a dress-coat and full suit of black at seven in
the morning. Ashburner noticed that Benson spit ostentatiously while
passing them; and after passing he swore again, this time in downright
English.

Le Roi had seen in his acquaintance with European watering-places, a
goodly amount of scamps and blacklegs, and Ashburner was not without
some experience of the sort, so that they were not disposed to be
curious about one blackguard more or less in a place of the kind; but
these two fellows had such a look of unmitigated rascality, that both
the foreigners glanced inquiringly at their friend, and were both on the