"Glenn Kilbourne's girl come all the way from New York to surprise him!" "Oh, Carley, I'm shore happy to meet you!" said the girl, in a voice of slow drawling richness.

"I know you.

Glenn has told me all about you." If this greeting, sweet and warm as it seemed, was a shock to Carley, she gave no sign.

But as she murmured something in reply she looked with all a woman's keenness into the face before her.

Flo Hutter had a fair skin generously freckled; a mouth and chin too firmly cut to suggest a softer feminine beauty; and eyes of clear light hazel, penetrating, frank, fearless.