I am Miss Garth.

Why do you ask the question ?" "I am employed in the clerk's office at Grailsea Station--" "Yes ?" "I am sent here--" He stopped again.

His wandering eyes looked down at the mat, and his restless hands wrung his cap harder and harder.

He moistened his dry lips, and tried once more.
"I am sent here on a very serious errand." "Serious to _me_ ?" "Serious to all in this house." Miss Garth took one step nearer to him--took one steady look at his face.

She turned cold in the summer heat.