Then he hurried to his boarding house with a peculiar smile on his evil face.
"I can see that team coming a long way off," he said to himself. "And I won't make any mistake."
With quite a little flourish Robert drove around to Mrs. Cabe's boarding place, and tied up at the block. Soon Mrs. Vernon came out, and he handed her to a seat.
"I met your nephew when I went to the livery stable," he observed, as he drove away. "Did he come in?"
"No," answered Mrs. Vernon. "Where was he going?"
"I thought he was coming to see you."
"Did he want to know if I was going out?"
"He suggested I take you for a drive, after I told him you were not very well again."
"I wonder he never offers to take me driving," mused the lady.
"He said he didn't like to drive--that he was afraid of horses."