"That you came over on the Luxuria."

"Yes?"

"And that The Oldburgh Herald sent you—to write up the coal strike."

"Yes—it did."

"And that you are going to stay—some time."

I was decidedly uncomfortable.

"Will you please explain how you knew all this?" I asked.

His smile died away.

"Mrs. Hiram Walker wrote her son to call on me while I was in New York," he explained in his serious lawyer-like manner, "and he happened to leave a copy of The Oldburgh Herald in my rooms."

"Oh! That was quite simple, wasn't it?"