"What is odder is that he asked after you."
"Really! Who is he?"
"Come and see. You'll be glad to meet him."
"Hang your mystifications!"
"Not mine. But there he is at the door. Those fellows, by the way, who went off in the automobile were Germans, but the old man assured me it is quite safe to accept his invitation."
While speaking they had led their horses to the house. They tied them up in a thick shrubbery behind the lawn, and went up the steps to the front door.
"How do you do, Amory?" said Granger in his natural voice, holding out his hand.
"By George!" gasped Kenneth. "A splendid get-up; I shouldn't have known you. What a Proteus you are!"
"Without his prophetic gifts, or I should have expected you. Come in: I have some interesting news for you."
"But what----"