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not a bicycle.'

He came up to us, waving his hat. He did look
handsome! 'Well, Miss Cayley,' he cried from afar,
'I have tracked you to your lair! I have found out
where you abide! What a beautiful spot! And how
well you're looking!'

This is an unexpected----' I paused. He thought
I was going to say, 'pleasure,' but I finished it,
'intrusion.' His face fell. 'How did you know we
were at Lungern, Mr. Tillington?'

'My respected relative,' he answered, laughing.
'She mentioned--casually--' his eyes met mine--
'that you were stopping in a chalet. And as I was
on my way back to the diplomatic mill, I thought I
might just as well walk over the Grimsel and the
Furca, and then on to the Gotthard. The Court is
at Monza. So it occurred to me .... that in
passing .... I might venture to drop in and say
how-do-you-do to you.'

'Thank you,' I answered, severely--but my heart
spoke otherwise--'I do very well. And you, Mr.
Tillington?'

'Badly,' he echoed. 'Badly, since you went away
from Schlangenbad.'

I gazed at his dusty feet. 'You are tramping,' I
said, cruelly. 'I suppose you will get forward for
lunch to Meiringen?'

'I--I did not contemplate it.'

'Indeed?'

He grew bolder. 'No; to say the truth, I half
hoped I might stop and spend the day here with
you.'

'Elsie,' I remarked firmly, 'if Mr. Tillington
persists in planting himself upon us like this, one
of us must go and investigate the kitchen
department.'

Elsie rose like a lamb. I have an impression
that she gathered we wanted to be left alone.