'Bad enough,' he answered in a kind of savage undertone. 'I knew something was going to happen. Haven't I been saying it for days?'
'But what has happened? Nothing very bad, I hope?'
'So bad that it couldn't be worse,' he said. 'Liz has run away.'
CHAPTER XII.
SETTING HIS HOUSE IN ORDER.
ladys opened her eyes.
'Run away! How? Where? I don't understand.'