What do you say if we give a look along the front?
He may be shy, though I told the hall porter that any inquirer was to be shown up at once." No; Mr.Handyside was not to be seen on Eastbourne's spacious marine promenade.

A couple of well-dressed men caught sight of Winter, and decided that they had instant and urgent business elsewhere, But he only smiled.

His quarry that day was not the swell mobsman, but much more dangerous game.
Lightning darted from a summer sky when the picnic party returned from Beachy Head in three cars, but without Mrs.Forbes.
Evelyn was hardly anxious at first.

The hall porter informed her who the occupants of the cars were, and she watched the lively and chattering groups forming on the pavement and breaking up again to enter the hotel and dress for dinner.
At last, realizing that her mother was not among them, she singled out a lady whom she knew, and asked for an explanation.

The lady, a Mrs.
Montagu, was very much surprised.
"But, my dear Evelyn," she said, "didn't you yourself send for your mother ?" The girl blanched.