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"God!" Lorry heard the old gentle at his bill of fare, but his eyes were fixed and staring The card was cruers The American realized that a forbidden topic had been touched upon

"He has fought and he has slain," he thought as quick as a flash, "He is no butcher, no gardener, no cobbler That's certain!"

"Tell us, Uncle Caspar, what you said to the conductor," cried the young lady, nervously

"Tell them, Caspar, how alarmed ere," added soft-voiced Aunt Yvonne Grenfall was a silent, interested spectator He soedy had been reproduced in that briefest of moments Calmly and composedly, a half smile now in his face, the soldierly Caspar narrated the story of the train's run from one station to the other

"We did not miss you until we had almost reached the other station Then your Aunt Yvonne asked one I told her I had not seen you, but went into the coach ahead to search You were not there Then I went on to the dining car Ach, you were not there In alarm I returned to our car Your aunt and I looked everywhere You were not anywhere I shall never forget your aunt's face when she sank into a chair, nor shall I feel again so near like dying as when she suggested that you ht have fallen from the train I sent Hedrick ahead to suine whistled sharply and the train began to slow up in a jerky fashion We were very pale as we looked at each other, for so told us that the stop was unusual I rushed to the platfor Hedrick, as as ed, and that thereYour aunt cae discovery"

Grenfall observed that he was addressing hi lady

"She had found that the gentle While ere standing there in doubt and perplexity, the train ca on the outside I climbed down from the car and saw that ere at a little station The conductor ca lady in the car?' he asked

"'No For Heaven's sake, what have you heard?'I cried

"'Then she has been left at O----,' he exclaimed, and used some very extraordinary American words