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"We did, Uncle Caspar," interrupted Miss Guggenslocker, naively "Our driver followed Mr Lorry's instructions"
Mr Grenfall Lorry blushed and laughed aardly He had been ad Uncle Caspar's recital Hoeet her voice when it pronounced his nan flavor to the words
"He would not have understood if I had said other things," he explained, hastily
"When your aunt and I returned to the trainthe conductor holding his watch He said to me: 'In just three minutes we pull out If they are not here by that tiet on the best they kno I've done all I can: I did not say a word, but went to et out my pistols If the train left before you arrived it would be without its conductor In thewith the wretch I hastened back to his side with my pistols in my pocket It was then that I told him to start his train if he dared That man will never kno close he was to death One minute passed, and he coolly announced that but one ive him one of my pistols when the time was up, and to tell him to defend hiular about it It was only a question as to whether the train shouldhorses Almost before we knew it you ith us I am so happy that you were not a ri so deter up the conductor to congratulate hi discussed his fair coraphically described the experience of twenty strange minutes in a shackle-down mountain coach He was surprised to find that she omitted no part, not even the hand clasp or theto him His ears burned as he listened to this frank confession, for he expected to hear words of disapproval from the uncle and aunt His astonishard of these rather peculiar details It was then that he realized how trusting she had been, how serenely unconscious of his tender and sudden passion And had she told her relatives that she had kissed hily Somehow the real flavor of romance was stricken from the ride by her candid ad cal for his memory the blurr of an adventure in which he had played the part of a gallant gentle to feel ashamed of the conceit that had ht have known it I did know it She is not like other women" The perfect confidence that dwelt in the rapt faces of the others forced into his wondering