So--good-by." Newman passed his hand into his hair and stood slowly rubbing his head and looking through his keenly-narrowed eyes from one to the other of the three persons before him.

His lips were compressed, and the two lines which had formed themselves beside his mouth might have made it appear at a first glance that he was smiling.

I have said that his excitement was an intenser deliberateness, and now he looked grimly deliberate.

"It seems very much as if you had interfered, marquis," he said slowly.

"I thought you said you wouldn't interfere.