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 "One moment, please!" Prue was facing him with a dangerous sparkle in her dark eyes. "You say you had no thought of inflicting your society on me, Mister—Forbes, is it not?" Wade bowed.

"My desire was to be of service to you," he answered.

"And you didn't think of stopping the train?"

Wade hesitated. Then,

"I did," he answered steadily.

"But instead of doing it you—" She finished with a shrug of her slender shoulders. "Why, Mr. Forbes?"

Wade hesitated. The girl smiled disdainfully.

"I suppose you will say that your presence on the train from New York and on the train from Boston was merely accidental, Mr. Forbes?"

"No, it wasn't," he answered. "I don't pretend that it was. I followed you quite deliberately, Miss Burnett."