Very slight, almost fragile, but beautiful, and with a delicate bloom which showed her to be in better health than one would judge from her dainty figure.

It was a private wedding, sir, celebrated in a hotel parlor; but her father was with her----" "Her father ?" Mr.Gryce's theory received its first shock.

Then the old man who had laughed on leaving Mr.Adams's house was not the father to whom those few lines in Mr.Adams's handwriting were addressed.

Or this young woman was not the person referred to in those lines.
"Is there anything wrong about that ?" inquired Sweetwater.
Mr.Gryce became impassive again.
"No; I had not expected his attendance at the wedding; that is all." "Sorry, sir, but there is no doubt about his having been there.

The bridegroom----" "Yes, tell me about the bridegroom." "Was the very man you described to me as leaving Mr.Adams's house with her.