'Yes, sir.'
He slipped a card with his address into Archie's hand, and hurried to the house, where the startling ring he gave the bell brought an indignant housemaid to the door speedily as a genii of the Lamp.
'Mrs. and Miss De Jobbyns,' she answered, 'was not at home, having just driven off to the park.'
'Thank heaven!—and Miss Cheyne!'
'The governess?'
'Yes—yes—is she at home?'
He was rather curtly informed that she had been dismissed from her 'sitivation,' and with her trunk had left the house a short time ago.
'Dismissed and gone—where?'
'No one in the house knew.'
He turned away in great agony of mind; and he had in his haste forgotten to ask Archie where he lived. He looked about him in every direction, but the old man was nowhere to be seen.