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He was no sooner over the threshold than she slammed the door shut, in spite of the heat She walked to the , glanced down the track again, turned to the table, and restlessly arranged the for under her breath, snapped the cover on the inkwell, sighed, patted her pohed at her own uneasiness

"Whenever that man comes in here," she observed iht to clean house after hih! And what does he es that don'tothers that are just a lot of words juether, hit or miss? I wish--only it's unprofessional to talk about it--but, just the sa, and I know it I feel guilty, ales"

"Maybe he's a detective," Evadna hazarded

"Maybe" Miss Georgie's tone, however, was extremely skeptical "Only, so far as I can discover, there's never been anything around here to detect Nobody has been murdered, or robbed, or kidnapped that I ever heard of Pete Hamilton says not And--I wonder, now, if Saunders could be watching somebody! Wouldn't it be funny, if old Pete himself turned out to be a Jesse Ja ht want to," Evadna guessed shrewdly, "but it would be too , "Saunders never does anything that anyone ever heard of Sweeps out the store, they say--but I'd hate to swear to that I never could catch it when it looked swept--and brings the ets one to take back And reads novels Of course, the man's half dead with consumption; but no one would object to that, if these queer wires hadn't co to him"

"Why don't you turn detective yourself and find out?" Plainly, Evadna was secretly laughing at her perturbed interest in the s already, and I haven't any false hair or dark lantern And, by the way, I' up to relieve lanced wearily around the little office "Honest, I'd go crazy if I stayed here et clear out, away fro--where I can't even hear a train whistle"

"Then you shall coet away, and we'll do so--but they only propose things so they can play jokes on me, it see, I just know But if you'd like to go along, there'd be two of us--"