He's sorely afraid she has set herself to catch him, as he says she's an eye like a warlock for a really strong good-looking fellow like himself," and Macfarlane chuckled audibly.

"Maybe he'll take pity on her, maybe he wont; the misguided lassie will be sairly teazed by him from a' he tauld us in his cups.

He gave us her name,--the oddest in a' the warld for sure,--I canna just remember it." "I can," said Duprez glibly.

"It struck me as quaint and pretty--Thelma Gueldmar." Errington started so violently, and flushed so deeply, that Lorimer was afraid of some rash outbreak of wrath on his part.

But he restrained himself by a strong effort.