When the cab drew up to the door of the house, Craven was about to alight, when Mary Grey stopped him.
"Wait," she said.
And taking from her card-case a pencil and a blank card, she wrote upon it the name:
"Mr. Alden Lytton."
"Send that in," she said, handing the card to the bewildered young man.
Craven Kyte took it, looked at it attentively, and then exclaimed:
"Why, that is exactly like Mr. Lytton's own handwriting! If I had not seen you write it I should have taken it to be his autograph."
"Should you? So much the better. But never mind that now. Go and do as I told you."
He alighted immediately and went up to the door of the house. He rang the bell, and sent in the card by the servant who answered it.
After the lapse of a few moments the servant came back with a very favorable message.