If you will take charge of some of it on her account, I shall feel relieved." "It would be a wise precaution," he admitted.

"But you could just as well leave it at the desk." "So I can," she smiled.

Then, as his eye remained fixed on her: "You are wondering if I have friends.

We both have and I have just come from telegraphing to one of them.

You can leave us, with an easy mind.