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"Yes, sir," was the reply

"Oh! good," said the caller "Just tell her I' it up in the great flagged hall with the air of one used to the house

The Manor was a spacious, well-furnished place, full of good pictures andthe corridor, and entering the drawing-room, announced: "Mr Benton is here, ma'am"

"Oh! Mr Benton! Show him in," cried his mistress enthusiastically "Show him in at once!"

Next moment the caller entered the fine, old-fashioned room, where a well-preserved, fair-haired wo her Pekinese

"Well, Charles? So you've discoveredhis hand

"Yes, Molly And you seehed Benton as he threw himself unceremoniously into a chintz-covered armchair

"They are, I assure you"

"And I suppose you're quite a great lady in these parts--eh?--now that you live at Shapley Manor Where's Louise?"

"She went up to town thisShe won't be back till after dinner She's with her old school-fellow--that girl Bertha Trench"

"Good Then we can have a chat I've several things to consult you about and ask your opinion"

"Have so him some into a Crown Derby cup

"Well," he commenced "I think you've done quite well to take this place, as you've done, for three years You are now safely out of the way The Paris Surete are ent inquiries, but the Surrey Constabulary will never identify you with the lady of the Rue Racine So you are quite safe here"

"Are you sure of that, Charles?" she asked, fixing her big grey eyes upon hiet back here to England, although you had to take a very round-about journey"

"Yes I got to Switzerland, then to Italy, and from Genoa took an Anchor Line steamer across to New York After that I came over to Liverpool, and in the ht ere travelling for pleasure I had to explainher that I did not wish land"

"And the girl believed it, of course," he laughed

"Of course She believes anything I tell her," said the clever, unscrupulous woman for whom the Paris police were in active search, whose real na career ell known to the French police