ion. "I wish to God you had never come near
me!" And Sylvia, hearing the cry, remembered that on the Sunday evening
when she had first come to the house in Hobart Place, her father had
shown a particular hesitation, had felt some of that remorse of which she
heard the full expression now, in welcoming her to his house and adapting
her to his ends. She raised her downcast eyes and with outstretched hands
took a step forward.

"Father!" she said. But her father was already gone. She heard his step
upon the stairs.

Chayne, however, followed her father from the room and caught him up as
he was leaving the hotel.

"I want to say," he began with some difficulty, "that, if you are pressed
at all for money--"

Garratt Skinner stopped him. He pulled some sovereigns out of one pocket
and some banknotes out of another.

"You see, I have enough to go on with. In fact--" and he looked northward
toward the mountains. Dimly they could be seen under the sickle of a new
moon. "In fact, I propose to-morrow to take your friend Simond and cross
on the high-level to Zermatt."

"But afterward?" asked Chayne.

Garratt Skinner laughed and laughed like a boy. There was a rich
anticipation of enjoyment in the sound.

"Afterward? I shall have a great time. I shall squeeze Mr. Jarvice. It's
what they call in America a cinch."

And with a cheery good-night Garratt Skinner betook himself down the
road.

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