122/157 He had made an extra trip at this most unusual hour, for the express purpose of taking this woman back. I have inquired." "Then follow me into the station. I have a few messages to send." Among these messages was a peremptory one to Sweetwater. They found, on inquiry, that the man responsible for Madame's flitting was not, as they had supposed, the hotel proprietor, but Phil himself, the good-natured, easily-imposed-upon ferryman, on whose sympathies she had worked during their first short passage from one shore to the other. |