way at once, then we will both
retire."

"Yes, I will go directly," Mr. Cutler remarked, "but I shall call you
early. I will have your breakfast sent up here, when your trunks can be
removed. Then, Miss Montague, you are to put on a wrap belonging to my
sister, and tie a thick veil over your face. I will come to take you to
the carriage, and no one will suspect but that you are Marie. Meantime
she will slip down another stairway, and out of the private entrance;
then away we will speed to the steamer, and all will be well. Now,
good-night, ladies, and a good sleep to you," he concluded, cheerfully,
as he quietly left the room.

Miss Cutler and Mona proceeded to retire at once, but while disrobing the
elder lady told her companion how it happened that she and her brother
were in Havana so opportunely. She had been out of health, and had come
to Cuba early in the fall to spend the winter. Her brother had come a few
weeks earlier to take her home, and they had been making excursions
to different points of interest on the island.

"I am so glad," she said, in conclusion, "that we decided to take rooms
at this hotel during our sojourn in Havana. At first I thought I would
like to go to some more quiet place, but Justin thought we would be
better served here, and," with a gentle smile, "I believe it was wisely
ordered so that we could help you."

Mona feared that she should not be able to sleep at all, her nerves had
been so wrought upon, but her companion was so cheerful and reassuring in
all that she said that before she was hardly aware that she was sleepy
she had dropped off into a sound slumber.

At six o'clock the next morning a sharp rap on their door awakened the
two ladies.

They arose immediately, and had hardly finished dressing when an
appetizing breakfast appeared. Miss Cutler received the tray at the door,
so that the waiter need not enter the room, and then was so merry and
entertaining as, with her own hands she served Mona, that the young girl
forgot her nervousness, in a measure, and ate quite heartily.

By the time their meal was finished another rap warned them that the
porters had come for their trunks.

"Step inside the closet, dear," said Miss Cutler, in a whisper, and Mona
noiselessly obeyed her.

The door was then opened, and both trunks were removed, apparently
without exciting any suspicion over the fact that there were two instead
of one as when Miss Cutler arrived.

A few minutes late