Undoubtedly the young couple your witnesses saw were my niece and myself." "What!" cried Mr.Mayfair.For a moment the undeflectable star reporter was all chagrin.

Then he was all suspicion.

"But why," he snapped out, "should you and your niece slip in at night?
And why should you live here in hiding ?" "You force me into a disagreeable and humiliating admission.

The fact is, our family is in severe financial straits.

We simply had no money to live on, and no prospects in sight.