Ade a screen, impenetrable to the eye, between the gateway

[Medicine Belousson]

Or at the last moment nature had thought better of the fine weather
which man had been enjoying
for the past month, and drawn a vast curtain of inkiness over the
luminaries from one horizon even unto the other, and sent a great puff
of wet fog
up the valley of
the river from the ocean, so that teeth chattered and the ends of
fingers
became shriveled and bloodless. And had not vanity gone out with the
entrance

of sin, Margaret would have noticed that her tight little curls were
looser and the once stately ostrich feather upon her Sunday hat,

the envy of little girls whom the green monster possessed, as flabby as
a long sermon.

Meanwhile the tide having turned, little sister boat made fine
way of it down the river, and, burrowing in the fog, holding her breath
as it were, and greatly assisted by the tide,
slipped past the town unseen, and put for open sea, where it is to be
supposed she enjoyed herself

hugely and, finally, becoming a little skeleton of
herself on unknown shores, was gathered up by somebody who

wanted a pretty fire with green lights in it. The main point is that she
went her selfish way undetected, so that the wide-lanterned search which
presently arose for little Margaret tumbled and stumbled about clueless,
and halted to take drinks, and came
back about morning and lay down all day, and said it
never did, which it certainly hadn't. All the to-do was over Margaret,
for Aladdin had not been missed, and, even if he had, nobody would have
looked for him. His father was at home bending over the model of the
wonderful lamp which was to make his fortune,
and over which he had been bending for fifteen rolling
years. It had come to him, at about the time that he fell in love with
Aladdin's mother, that a certain worthless biproduct of something would,
if combined
with something else and steeped in water, generate a certain gas, which,
though desperately explosive, would burn with a flame as white as day.
Over the perfection of this invention, with a brief honeymoon for
vacation, he had spent fifteen years, a small fortune,-
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