At least that was the explanation given by Hays, for the woman had fainted and been driven off to her hotel by the Quartermaster, and Tournelli had escaped.

But the Editor was on his track.

You didn't notice that lady, Tom, did you ?" Tom came out of an abstracted study, and said: "No, she had her back to me all the time." Manners regarded him steadily for a moment without speaking, but in a way that I could not help thinking was much more embarrassing to the bystanders than to him.

When we rose to leave, as he placed his usual gratuity into Tom's hand, he said carelessly, "You might drop into my office to-morrow if you have anything to tell ME." "I haven't," said Tom quietly.
"Then I may have something to tell YOU." Tom nodded, and turned away to his duties.

The Mining Secretary and myself could scarcely wait to reach the street before we turned eagerly on Manners.
"Well ?" "Well; the woman you saw was Tom's runaway wife, and Tournelli the man she ran away with." "And Tom knew it ?" "Can't say." "And you mean to say that all this while Tom never suspected HIM, and even did not recognize HER just now ?" Manners lifted his hat and passed his fingers through his hair meditatively.