STELLA PROVES OBSTINATE Littleson reached the hotel where Stella lived just in time to find the hall full of her trunks, and Stella herself, in dark travelling clothes and heavily veiled, in the act of saying farewell to the manager.

He came up to her eagerly.
"I seem to be just in time, Miss Duge," he said.

"You are going away ?" "I am certainly going away," she answered.

"Did you wish to see me ?" Her manner took him a little aback.

Nevertheless he reflected that there were a good many people within hearing, and she was right to be cautious.
"Can I have three words with you ?" he begged, "alone, anywhere ?" She led him into a sitting-room, which was fortunately empty.
"Well," she said, continuing to draw on her gloves, "what do you want, Mr.Littleson ?" "You know very well what I want," he answered quickly.