I'm sub-manager there at present--till Harley goes." "Ah!" She looked up at him again.

"He is a dangerous man.

He hates you, doesn't he ?" "Quite possibly," said Warden, with a smile.

"That mine is rather an abode of hate all round.

But we'll clean it out one of these days, and make a decent place of it." "I hope you will succeed," she said, very earnestly.
"Thank you," he said again.
He was looking at her speculatively, as if there were something about her that he found hard to understand.