Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

1'72 DANGER IN THE DARK.
been conceived by Isadora, to entice them away from
their prison.
One day in conversation npon the subject with
Enola and Isadora, a romantic thought all at once
bolted into Mary's mind; clapping her hands together
and springing to her feet, she exclaimed: "I'll
try it! "
" What now, Mary 1 try what 1" said Enola, not a
little surprised at the sudden start and triumphant air
of the eccentric Miss Glidewell.
" To fool Dupin, and think it no sin!" she replied.
"It'll require all your wits."
" Never mind - I 'II come up on his blind side."
"Sure enough, he has but one eye."
"And but little nse for that," remarked Isadora,
" if he '8 still where I last saw him; for not a ray of
light nor breath of air could enter the horrid dungeon
where I shut him in. How I'd like to see him take
another Sam Patch of a leap from the upper window
of the convent."
"You lent him some assistance in that exploit, I've
been informed," remarked Miss Glidewell.
"Yes, I had the honor of giving his holiness a
hoist."
"Then it was he lost an eye 1"
"That was not caused by the beautiful leap he took,
but rather by his awkward lighting."
"But tell us, Mary," said Enola, "how is it you
think of fooling Dupin 1"
"I'm a stranger to him, yon know."