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"I think--I'm not quite sure--I think that's a tort," said Sam

"A what?"

"Either a tort or aabout it after all!" cried Billie, startled into a sort of friendliness in spite of herself And at the words and the sight of her quick smile Sam's professional composure reeled on its foundations He had half risen, with the purpose of springing up and babbling of the passion that consuirl had once said that she considered hio, would she not continue to think hied back into his seat and at that , revealed the sinister face of the holiday-, Mr Sa, Miss Milliken Oh!"

He vanished as abruptly as he had appeared He perceived that what he had taken at first glance for the stenographer was a client, and that the junior partner was engaged on a business conference He left behind hi asp Jno Peters often affected the opposite sex like that at first sight

"I beg your pardon?" said SahtenedIf this had not been one of his Napoleonic s, no doubt the sudden arrival of his old friend, Mr Peters, who for his trip to Aested a great deal He had had a brain-wave, and for fully aman who often had brain-waves, and, when they came, they made him rather dizzy

"Who is he?" asked Billie "He seeht pause, "is Miss Milliken?"

Sam drew a deep breath

"It's rather a sad story," he said "His name is John Peters He used to be clerk here"

"But isn't he any longer?"

"No" Saet rid of hi like that"

"It wasn't that sothat annoyed father was that he tried to shoot Miss Milliken"