et "Come with me."

When Dunham came back, the nervous start she gave showed him how tense and
anxious had been her mind. He studied her lovely face under the great hat,
and noted the dark shadows beneath her eyes. He felt that he must do
something to relieve her. It was unbearable to him that this young girl
should be adrift, friendless, and apparently a victim to some terrible
fear.

Drawing up a chair beside her, he began talking about her ticket.

"You must remember I was utterly at your mercy," she smiled sadly. "I
simply had to let you help me."

"I should be glad to pay double for the pleasure you have given me in
allowing me to help you," he said.

Just at that moment a boy in a blue uniform planted a sole-leather
suit-case at his feet, and exclaimed: "Here you are, Mr. Dunham. Had a
fierce time findin' you. Thought you said you would be by the elevator
door."

"So I did," confessed the young man. "I didn't think you had time to get
down yet. Well, you found me anyhow, Harkness."

The boy took the silver given him, touched his hat, and sauntered off.

"You see," explained Dunham, "it wasn't exactly the thing for you to be
travelling without a bit of baggage. I thought it might help them to trace
you if you really were being followed. So I took the liberty of 'phoning
over to the club-house and telling the boy to bring down the suit-case
that I left there yesterday. I don't exactly know what's in it. I had the
man pack it and send it down to me, thinking I might stay all night at
the club. Then I went home, after all, and forgot to take it along. It
probably hasn't anything very appropriate for a lady's costume, but there
may be a hair-brush and some soap and handkerchiefs. And, anyhow, if
you'll accept it, it'll be something for you to hitch on to. One feels a
little lost even for one night without a rag one can call one's own except
a Pullman towel. I thought it might give you the appearance of a regular
traveller, you know, and not a runaway."

He tried to make her laugh about it, but her face was deeply serious as
she looked up at him.

"I think this is the kindest and most thoughtful thing you have done yet,"
she said. "I don't see how I can ever, ever thank you!"

"Don't try," he returned gaily. "There's your train being called. We'd
better go right out and make you comfortable. You are beginning to be very
tired."

She did not deny it, but rose to follow him, scanning the waiting-room
with o