"What do you mean ?" "Mean I've seen two of you at least this afternoon.

That Bascom woman, housekeeper at the Graham bungalow she is, went past here twice.

Fust time she was in one of Snow's livery buggies, Snow's boy drivin' her.
Then, about an hour ago, she went by again, but the boy'd gone, and there was another feller pilotin' the team--a stranger, nobody I ever see afore." Seth's red face turned pale.

"What ?" he cried.

"Em--Mrs.Bascom ridin' with a stranger! What sort of a stranger ?" "Oh, a feller somewheres between twenty and fifty.