rnor, rakishly trigged out
in knickerbockers, with a cap smartly tilted over one ear and a scarf
snapping about his face in the lively wind.

"This looks like the end of the world," Congdon remarked dejectedly as
they walked toward the hotel. "I was a fool to come here and drag you
along."

"Don't worry about me," said Archie cheerfully. "We'll make a lark of
it. Your daughter's probably around here somewhere. We'll lay low and
see what turns up."

A man emerged from the hotel and crossed the street. Archie identified
him at once as Red Leary, to whom the Governor had delivered the stolen
money at Walker's farm. Leary made no sign of ever having seen Archie
before but picked up the luggage and led the way to the hotel. Archie's
admiration for the Governor soared to new heights at this manifestation
of the thoroughness of his preparations. Something had been said at
Walker's about Leary's retirement to northern Michigan, but at that time
Huddleston had not, he was sure, figured in the Governor's plans. Leary
walked round the counter and turned the register for their signatures.

"We jes' opened the house last week; she's been shet up quite a spell
but they're goin' t' open the mill ag'in. Jest now there ain't a soul in
town. Those houses and the store are boarded up tight. The railroad
agent stays here to run the water tank and sleeps in the station. Yep;
one other gent's registered." He placed his finger on "Reginald Heber
Saulsbury" in the Governor's flowing autograph. "All the way from New
York. I guess you'll find him all right. Blew in a couple of days ago;
says he come out here seekin' peace for his soul; them's his very
words."

"I judge there's a large surplus of soul stuff hereabouts," remarked
Congdon. "By the way, you haven't seen anything of a little girl about
here, have you--a child of eleven?"

"Not one of 'em but a whole passel," replied Leary lifting his head
after scrawling the numbers of the rooms against their names. "They's a
camp o' city girls across the bay. The day I got here a whole trainload
of 'em was hauled up from Chicago. Y' never saw such a lively bunch. And
yestiddy I was over that way lookin' up fishin' places to recommend to
our guests and saw the whole outfit swimmin'. A cute lot o' youngsters.
Mos' likely th' camp'll bring considerable business to the hotel; folks
comin' up to visit their kids."

"Well, I suppose that's the trick," said Congdon as Leary started
upstairs with t