"Really!"
The single word was weighted with incredulousness.
"'Twas the funniest thing you ever knew how it happened," put in Willie.
Robert Morton tried to cut him short.
"A package for the Galbraiths was sent to me by mistake; that was how I secured their address," he said.
Snelling looked puzzled.
"That warn't it at all, Bob," persisted Willie. "You ain't tellin' it half as queer as 'twas."
It was useless to attempt to check the little old man now. Artlessly he babbled the story, and Howard Snelling, listening, constructed a good part of the romance interwoven with it from the young man's color and irritation.
"So there were two beauties in the case!" commented he, when the tale was finished.
"There were two silver buckles," came sharply from Bob.