smile.

"Oh, I know what you are thinking about, you are wondering if I have
forgotten Miss Murray. But I have lived that down long ago. It was
madness for me to think of one who was in love with another man."

Roderick looked at him so eloquently that he went on.

"I never really cared for her, in that way, anyway. I realise that
now, and now that the man she was engaged to has come back--"

"What?" asked Roderick sharply.

"The man she was engaged to. Don't you remember my telling you about
him? Why, they have made up again. He was here to see her last winter
and he was in Toronto to see her in the Easter holidays when she was
down there. I was very glad that it has all turned out so, for I found
out my mistake as soon as I set eyes on Eveline. I know I ought not to
call her that yet, and I don't to her of course. Don't you think she
has wonderful eyes? I always felt that dark eyes are much more
expressive than blue or even hazel ones, don't you? Oh, there is Anna
calling me. Excuse me, I must run."

He flew back to the group, and Roderick was left to digest what he had
told him. Unfortunately Alfred had a reputation for finding out things
and he had no reason to doubt his assertion. He slowly followed Lawyer
Ed about. They made their way down the length of the deck, his chief
shaking hands with every one, and at last away in the stern under a
shady awning he saw her. She was seated with Madame on one side,
little Mrs. Perkins on the other, Gladys Hurd and Eddie at her feet,
the Perkins' baby on her knee and a crowd of children about her. There
was no hope of having a word with her even had he the courage to go
forward and speak to her.

The children were sitting open mouthed, staring up into the face of
Mrs. Doasyouwouldbedoneby, while in low thrilling tones she was telling
how the dreadful big giant came slowly up the stairs, every step
creaking under him, and the lovely Princess behind the door just
squeezed herself into a teenty weenty crack and held her breath till he
got past.

Lawyer Ed burst into the story with a roar, and every one leaped and
shrieked as if the giant himself had sprung into their midst. He
caught two of the youngsters and bumped their heads together, he chased
a shrieking half dozen to a refuge behind a pile of life-preservers, he
tossed a couple up in the air and pretended he was going to fling them
overboard, and finally he took out a great package from his pocke