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With ahis way round to the garage ordered his car to be brought forth i seat and drove away at such a pace that Andrews, his outdoor eneral factotu his licence endorsed," he observed to the pretty house her master's departure from a convenient"Never saw hiht call a very considerate driver"

"Considerate? What of?" asked Alice ungras and chickens in the road, d'you s and chickens! Good Lord, no!" Andreas a born ret to hienerally drove the car hi but a nuisance anyway No, I meant he considered the car--but he don't look much like it to-day"

"Oh, the car!" Alice was openly scornful "Well, from the pace he went off just now, I should think he'll soes far And no loss either," said Alice, as engaged to a soldier in a cavalry regiment, and therefore disdained all purely mechanical means of locomotion

But once out on the road Anstice moderated his pace somewhat, since to run over an unwary pedestrian would only add to the general hopelessness of the situation; and he reached Cherry Orchard without any such mishap as his servants had prophesied for his less satisfactory than he had hoped Cherry was no better; indeed, to his experienced eye, the child orse, and although Mrs Carstairs showed no signs of fatigue, and was apparently prepared to nurse her little daughter indefinitely, it was evident that the woman Tochatti orn out with pain, anxiety, and, possibly, reether sufficiently to answer Anstice's questions intelligibly, it was plain to see that she was in reality half dazed by the shock she had experienced and by want of sleep, and Anstice realized that if Cherry were to be properly nursed some other help must be obtained at once

"See here, Mrs Carstairs" His face was grave as he exa to beat about the bush--I' to send you a nurse to help you with Cherry"

"A nurse? But--can't Tochatti and I----?"

"You're all right," he said shortly "You look good for any a you had no sleep last night But Tochatti is no use at present" He judged it best to speak frankly "It is evident she is in pain with that hand of hers, and she will be fit for nothing to-night, at any rate"