He glanced at it, and said to his father, "Oh, yes! This man has been haunting the office for the last three days.

He's got to leave to-day, and as it seemed to be rather a case of life and death with him, I said he'd probably find you here this morning.

But if you don't want to see him, I can put him off till afternoon, I suppose." He tossed the card to his father, who looked at it quietly, and then gave it to his wife.

"Perhaps I'd as well see him ?" "See him!" she returned in accents in which all the intensity of her soul was centred.

By an effort of self-control which no words can convey a just sense of she remained with her children, while her husband with a laugh more teasing than can be imagined went into the drawing-room to meet Burnamy.
The poor fellow was in an effect of belated summer as to clothes, and he looked not merely haggard but shabby.