Have you got his name--and the other gentleman's ?" Mrs.Partingley uttered another exclamation of distress and astonishment, lifting her plump hands in horror.

But her business faculties remained alive, and she made haste to produce a big visitors' book and to spread it open before her callers.
"There it is!" she said, pointing to the two last entries.

"That's the short gentleman's name--Mr.John Braden, London.

And that's the tall one's--Mr.Christopher Dellingham--also London.

Tourists, of course--we've never seen either of them before." "Came together, you say, Mrs.Partingley ?" asked Mitchington.