Too late for the train, I drove straight through,--ghastly roads,--found Tony, fetched him back, and up till yesterday he has been hiding in his own home.

Meantime, I managed to get things fixed up--paid his debts, the prosecution is withdrawn and now he wants,--or, rather, he doesn't want but needs, a job." Maitland listened with a grave face.

"Then the little girl was right, after all," he said.
"Meaning ?" "Patricia," said his father.

"She told me a long story of a terrible accident to Tony that had called you away to Toronto.

I must say it was rather incoherent." "But who told her?
I swear not a soul knew but his people and myself," said Jack.
"Strange how things get out," said his father.