ending  in my coat pocket—t if even ten enoug over my tasteless , figo go a  me.

    quot;Lost your number?quot; came in a s my elbo;ake mine,quot; and  out to me  more ado. ook it and turned it over in my fingers ttle fellow rapidly disappeared.

    eboard counter for a number, no number o be seen. Instead tiny tendant to  and  to t ligo read it. ttle crazy letters t were scarcely legible was scrawled:

    tONIG tER

    FOR MADMEN ONLY

    PRICE OF ADMIttANCE YOUR MIND.

    NOt FOR EVERYBODY.hERMINE IS IN hELL.

    As a marionette  o neer a brief paralysis of deats lively part, so did I at ticity and eagerness of youto tumult from reated in tlessness and o get to  before my patent-leated air disgusted me, and t undone me. No I nimbly one-stepped to ed me on, and so no less did tous music, toxication of colors, tongues, ter, to my arms: quot;Dance ; quot;Cant,quot; said I. quot;Im bound for  Ill gladly take a kiss ; t mine and  igime ill joined. Past Pablo rument. tracted radiance. But before y steps tfully I let go of Maria.

    quot;Id o ; I said, intoxicated ;Come ep or tiful arm. Let me  a moment longer! But, you see, ;

    quot;I t so. Fare you.quot; S me—left me indeed. Yes, it umn, it e, t .

    On I  tairs to cs, and tra of devils  ted a pretty young fello a mask and in evening dress o t ty couples  ill in masks and smiled at me, but none  me. At t pause, t I, s no one came.

    I  over to to a corner of taking a seat near t I sa t tle