But he found that there was no need for him to trouble himself on that point, for this very morning at luncheon Dick said to him: "I think that I'll run up to town this afternoon, father.

I might be there for a day or two." Mr.Hazlewood was delighted.

No other proposal could have fitted in so well with his scheme.

The mere fact that Dick was away would start people at the pleasant business of conjecturing mishaps and quarrels.

Perhaps indeed the lovers _had_ quarrelled.