"You mustn't worry too much, though, dear.

Where's Helen ?" "She is in the gun room with a caller." "With a caller ?" Nora exclaimed.

"Is it any one from the Depot?
I must go and see." "You needn't trouble," her stepmother replied.

"Here they are, coming in." The door on the opposite side of the room was suddenly opened, and Hamar Lessingham and Helen entered together.

Lessingham was entirely at his ease,--their conversation, indeed, seemed almost engrossing.