To tell you the truth, I couldn't bear to come and see you; I should have been too miserably ashamed of myself .-- And not a soul has found you out, all this time ?" "No one that I know of." "You must have suffered horribly from loneliness .-- But I have things to tell you, important things." He waved his arm.

"Not to-night; it's too late, and you look tired to death." "Tell on," said Warburton.

"If I went to bed I shouldn't sleep--where are you staying ?" "Morley's Hotel.

Not at my own expense," Sherwood added hastily.

"I'm acting as secretary to a man--a man I got to know in Ireland.