Armour felt that the trader had something important to communicate.

He guessed it was in the paper.

He mutely held out his hand for it.

The trader handed it to him hesitatingly, at the same time pointing to a paragraph, and saying: "It is nearly two years old, as you see.

I chanced upon it by accident to-day." It was a copy of a London evening paper, containing a somewhat sensational account of Lali's accident.