Still he stood very straight, and it was a good face, with broad forehead and long, straight nose, while the effect of the solid jaw was mitigated by something in the shape of the mobile lips.

The grey eyes were keen and steady until a sympathetic twinkle crept into them, and Miss Deringham felt that the man understood her position.
"Well," he said.

"What's the difficulty ?" The station agent explained laconically, and the stranger gravely took off his battered hat.

"My wagon's pretty full, but I can take you through," he said.
"It would be a favour," said Deringham, taking out a roll of bills.

"I should, of course, be glad to recompense you for your trouble." For a moment the man's eyes closed a trifle, then he laughed, and Miss Deringham noticed that there was nothing dissonant in his merriment.
"Well," he said lightly, "there will be plenty time to talk of that.
These are your things, miss ?" The girl nodded, and wondered when, heaving up the biggest trunk as though it weighed nothing at all, he laid it carefully in the wagon, because she remembered having to fee two hotel porters lavishly for handling it in Liverpool.