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Rh "That was what I gathered from his somewhat excited conversation."

"Within how many hours?"

"Miss Regan—really you should have studied for the bar," he said quietly. "Don't think I am impertinent or am mocking at you when I say that your faculty of cross-questioning is an unusual ability either in man or woman."

She paid no heed to the interruption. "Within how many hours?" she repeated imperatively.

"To tell the truth I have forgotten his exact words; but the time set falls, I believe, about seven o'clock tomorrow night."

"In default of which—?"

He made no answer. She studied him long and impersonally, and in her fixed scrutiny he seemed to detect dimly a new respect.