. don't you know and to the Mirliflores as well,

a new club English, French, Italians, all sorts lively young fellows mostly, who wanted to pay a compli- t to an old resident, sir. But we'll lunch at the i!!.i Int. T -i you, I fancy. Real thing of the 5 try. Men of the first families. The President of Occidental Republic himself belongs to it, sir. old bishop with a broken nose in the patio. Re- markable piece of statuary, I believe. Cavaliere Par- >'tti you know Parrochetti, the famous Italian sculptor was working here for two years thought highly <>f our old bishop . . . There! I am very much at your service now." Inflexible, proud of his experience, penetrated by the sense of historical importance of men, events, and buildings, he talked pompously in jerky periods, with slight indicating sweeps of his short, thick arm, letting nothing "escape the attention" of his privileged cap- " Lots of building going on, as you observe. Be- fore the Separation it was a plain of burned grass smothered in clouds of dust, with an ox-cart track to our jetty. Nothing more. This is the harbor gate, uresque, is it not? Formerly the town stopped short there. We enter now the Calle de la Constitu- cion. Observe the old Spanish houses. Great dignity. Eh? I suppose it's just as it was in the time of the viceroys, except for the pavement. Wood blocks now. Sulaco National Bank there, with the sentry boxes each side of the gate. Casa Avellanos this side, with all the ground-floor windows shuttered. A won-

derful woman lives there Miss Avellanos the beau-