fortune-hunter.

Miss Hugonin resented this. Manifestly, he looked clean and honest for

the deliberate purpose of deceiving her. Very well! She'd show him!

He was quite unembarrassed. He shook hands cordially; then he shook

hands with the groom, who, you may believe it, was grinning in a most

unprofessional manner because Master Billy was back again at Selwoode.

Subsequently, in his old decisive way, he announced they would walk to

the house, as his legs needed stretching.

The insolence of it!--quite as if he had something to say to Margaret

in private and couldn't wait a minute. Beyond doubt, this was a young