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 beauty. It was 100–110 h. p. and could do sixty miles an hour easily.

The next letter which he received from Miss Hayes was short and devoid, so far as he could discern after much study, of any cryptic meaning whatever. She thus made allusion to the fact that he had not signed his letter:

"By the way I notice that you forgot to sign your letter. I suppose you were thinking at the time of other things." The later sentence was underlined. The information in the letter was that Colonel Ogilvie and "his daughter" expected to be in London on the Saturday following her letter and would stay at Brown's Hotel, Albemarle Street, "where I have no doubt they will be happy to see you if you should chance to be in London at the time. I think Lucius intends to write you."

The latter sentence was literally gall to him. He knew that he must not be in London during their stay there. To be away was the only decent way of avoiding meeting them. He must not meet Colonel Ogilvie until he had made certain of Joy's feeling towards him, for he could not make his identity known till he had that certainty. He could then explain his position … The rest of the possibilities remained unspoken; but they were definite in his own mind.

As he had to go away he thought it would be well to study up the various branches of the Ogilvy as well as of the Ogilvie family. He would then make a tour on his own account to the various places where were their ancient seats. As Colonel Ogilvie was interested in the matter some knowledge on his part might lead … somewhere.