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"Six miles?" I echoed dismally "Madam, if I have seemed impertinent,

pardon me I have been in the saddle six hours I have ridden nearly

thirty ive ain, I admit that the

manner of my entrance was informal; but hoas I to know? There was

not even a knocker on the door by which to make known o at once No one likes to

stu as this promised to be--and

immediately pop out of it An idea came to me, serviceable rather than

brilliant "I am an American My German is poor I speak no French

I have lost ry and tired To ride six

miles farther now is a physical impossibility; and I ary, Gretchen," said the English girl, dropping

easily into the French language as a vehicle of speech (I was a

wretch, I know, but I sio; and they _irl, "he looks like a gentleht," replied

Gretchen, eying azed froly, after the ue not understandable