If there is anything shady in his past out there, depend upon it Dick will hear of it." She pushed the wavy hair back from her forehead--her eyes were bright, and there was a deep flush of colour in her cheeks.

But the man was not to be deceived.

He knew that these things were not for him.

It was the accomplice she welcomed and not the man.
"It is a splendid stroke of fortune," she said.

"You will write to Fred to-day, won't you?
Don't prejudice him either way.