"And you sail to-day?"
"Yes."
"I cannot go with you."
"You cannot go with me?"
"No."
At that moment a most extraordinary incident occurred, but its real character cannot be revealed until our narrative has progressed. The incident, however, caused a complete change to come over the girl. She had glanced in a mirror behind the man who had just made the announcement to her, and she had beheld a sight which caused, as stated, a complete change to come over her demeanor. "You must go without me," sail the girl. The latter spoke in a different tone.
The man glanced at her, and asked:
"Why Renie, what has come over you. Did you not give me to understand that you were prepared to go with me to Cuba any time I desired?"
"Yes; I gave you so to understand."
"Then why do you now refuse to go?"