My father expects it at three o'clock." "It is now a quarter to," said Archie, consulting his watch.

"As I have been to London all yesterday I did not know that The Diver had arrived at Pierside, How is Bolton ?" Lucy wrinkled her brows.

"I am rather worried over Sidney," she said in an anxious voice, "and so is my father.

He had not appeared." "What do you mean by that ?" "Well," she looked at the ground in a pondering manner, "my father got a letter from Sidney yesterday afternoon, saying that the ship with the mummy and himself on board had arrived about four o'clock.

The letter was sent on by special messenger and came at six." "Then it arrived in the evening and not in the afternoon ?" "How particular you are!" said Miss Kendal, with a shrug.