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Kitty waved her handkerchief, turned and walked slowly back to the

villa Who had passed her in the upper hall? And on what errand?

Neither Thomas nor Lord Monckton, for she had left the unnecessarily Itdown to the library for a book to read

She reeted He ht shiver touched the nape of Kitty's neck She had never

noticed before how frightfully scarred his thulance

"Ah! You noticea few years ago and clumsily fell on the camp-stove Scar on

my shoulder where I struck as I rolled off Stupid Tripped over a

case of canned corn I have fingers now as sensitive as a blind man's"

"I am sorry," she said perfunctorily "You must tell rew gone to New York?"

"For a part of the day Had your breakfast?"

"No Nothing to do; thought I'd wait for the rest of the, just about dawn Refreshing"

"Then I'll see you at breakfast"

He smiled and stepped aside for her to pass She proved rather a

puzzle to him