Meeting the look of the youth, the stranger rose hurriedly and left the table, but still lingered in the apartment.

Ralph was struck with his features, which it appeared to him he had seen before, but as the person wore around his cheeks, encompassing his head, a thick handkerchief, it was impossible for him to decide well upon them.

He turned to Forrester, who was busily intent upon the dissection of a chicken, and in a low tone inquired the name of the stranger.

The woodman looked up and replied-- "Who that ?--that's Guy Rivers; though what he's got his head tied up for, I can't say.

I'll ask him;" and with the word, he did so.
In answer to the question, Rivers explained his bandaging by charging his jaws to have caught cold rather against his will, and to have swelled somewhat in consequence.