Come over here to the window, and I will tell you something." They walked towards the great circular window which overlooked the drive.

As they stood there together a four-wheeled cab drove slowly by, and a girl leaned forward and looked at them.

Brooks started as he recognized her.
"Why, that must be some one for me," he exclaimed, in a puzzled tone.
"Whatever can have happened to old Bullsom ?" She looked at him politely bewildered.
"It is the niece of a man whom I know very well in Medchester," he exclaimed.

"Something must have happened to her uncle.

It is most extraordinary.".