You know him ?" "Just a little," carelessly; "but what sort of a trick could he be working trying to make you acknowledge Christie Maclaire as your sister ?" Willoughby did not answer, shifting uneasily about on the bed.

Keith waited, and at last the boy blurted out: "Oh, it wasn't nothing much.

I told him something when I was drunk once, that I thought maybe might have stuck to him.

Odd he should make that mistake, too, for I showed him Hope's picture.

Bart's a schemer, and I didn't know but what he might have figured out a trick, though I don't see how he could.