before, upon the occasion of her starting the excavation of the Assyrian city, she had attained in the personal pages of one of the magazines the dignity of a careful fullpage halftone, with veil and sunshade, seated upon a camel. Before her father's sudden taking off, Hereford, then known only as banker to the firm but in reality closer in many ways than any other person to old Matthew Regan, had learned to look for the girl's face and figure, more especially in those Sunday papers which gave curious attention to the more extraordinary doings of Chicagoans abroad.
At that time, and even after her father's death he had found a sort of romantic interest in this undisciplined child who sped from corner to corner of the world merely at the dictates of her own caprice. But the events
