"You haven't asked what kept me, but you will see if you look at the horse's knees.

It's a little difficult to understand why he must get his foot in a hole to-day." It was late that night when they reached Somasco, but Alton found Miss Deringham upon the verandah, and she glanced at him with very pretty sympathy.

Still, Seaforth fancied that she seemed a trifle anxious.
"Have you seen the man who brought the message ?" she said.
"I have," said Alton.

"You were right, of course.

He'd had too much whisky." The girl appeared, so Seaforth fancied, curiously relieved.