\" she said with pretended nervousness. \"Why, I scarcely knew him!\"
He pounced on this admission. \"Then you did know him?\"
\"I only met him once before tonight,\" she said. \"It was at a cabaret in Harlem. It was then that he gave me a ticket to the ball tonight, and asked me to meet him there.\"
\"Will you unmask, miss, so we can all see your face?\" he asked suddenly.
My heart skipped a beat, for of course Mme. Storey's
\" she said with pretended nervousness. \"Why, I scarcely knew him!\"
He pounced on this admission. \"Then you did know him?\"
\"I only met him once before tonight,\" she said. \"It was at a cabaret in Harlem. It was then that he gave me a ticket to the ball tonight, and asked me to meet him there.\"
\"Will you unmask, miss, so we can all see your face?\" he asked suddenly.
My heart skipped a beat, for of course Mme. Storey's
