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Unable to resist, he released the strap to which he had clung so grily over the little one that gripped his arm with the clutch of death It was very dark and very lonely, too!

"Oh!" she cried, as his hand clasped hers "You ladly, "There is no danger See! My hand does not tremble, does it? Be calm! It cannot be much farther"

"Will it not be dreadful if the conductor refuses to stop?" she cried, her hand resting calmly beneath its protector He detected a tone of security in her voice

"But he will stop! Your uncle will see to that, even if the operator fails"

"My uncle will kill him if he does not stop or co," thought Grenfall; "he looks like a duelist Who the devil are they, anyhow?" Then aloud: "At this rate we'd be able to beat the train to Washington in a straight-away race Isn't it a delightfully wild ride?"

"I have acquired a great deal of knowledge in America, but this is the first tiree that it is wild"

For some moments there was silence in the noisy conveyance Outside, the crack of the driver's whip, his hoarse cries, and the nerve-destroying crash of the wheels produced ihty storm rather than of peace and pleasure

"I am curious to knohere you obtained the coin you lost in the car yesterday," she said at last, as if relieving hersubdued

"The one you so kindly found for ly

"Yes They are certainly rare in this country"

"I never saw a coin like it until after I had seen you," he confessed He felt her arhter, and there was a quick movement of her head which told hi to see his face and that her blue eyes ith so more than terror

"I do not understand," she exclai-car porter who said soh time' with it," he explained in her ear

"He evidently did not care for the 'high tiiven a fortune for one glimpse of her face at that instant

"I think he said it would be necessary to go to Europe in order to follow the injunction of the donor As I ao to Europe than he, I relieved hih time'"