'Yes. Did not Will tell you? We called at the Mirror office, and were told that Angus had bolted to London two days ago.'
'And the worst of it,' interposed Will, 'is that he ran off without paying his landlady's bill.'
'I knew that man was a rascal,' exclaimed the colonel.
Mary flushed.
'I don't believe it,' she said.
'You don't believe it,' repeated her father angrily; 'and why not, pray?'
'Because—because I don't,' said Mary.