"My instructions," the young woman interrupted, "are to deliver messages as promptly as possible. If you are crossing to Scalawag Harbor to-night, I should be glad if you would take this telegram with you. If you are not—well, that's not my affair. I am not instructed to urge anybody to deliver my messages."
"Is the message from the maid?"
"What a question!" the young woman exclaimed indignantly. "I'll not tell you!"
"Is there anything about sickness in it?"
"I'll not tell you."
"If 'tis a case o' sickness," Tommy declared, "we'll take it across, an' glad t' be o' service. If 'tis the other matter——"
"What other matter?" the young woman flashed.
"Well," Tommy replied, flushed and awkward, "there was another little matter between Elizabeth Luke an'——"
The young woman started.
"Elizabeth Luke!" she cried. "Did you say Elizabeth Luke?"