alighting from the car in Touro
Park, bade Armitage return to The Crags.

"Shall I call anywhere for you?" asked Armitage pleasantly.

"No," replied Koltsoff, who stood on the sidewalk, watching until the car
disappeared.

CHAPTER XV

ANNE AND SARA SEEK ADVENTURE

"Anne," said Mrs. Wellington, as she came in from her drive a few
minutes later, "your chauffeur drives too fast. The car passed me,
cutting through Brenton Road a while ago, at a perfectly insane pace.
Some one--how do you do, Sara, I 'm delighted to have you with us--was
in the tonneau, whom I took to be Koltsoff, although there was such a
blur I was n't certain. Was it he?"

"Yes, mother," Anne glanced at Sara. "Isn't it maddening! Some urgent
summons, he said, made it necessary for him to go; and he may be away
all night. Of course that punctured the party at Freebody."

"It is maddening," Sara hastened to observe.

Mrs. Wellington compressed her lips.

"I had told him your father would arrive this evening. But of course
he must have failed to remember that. Fortunately, he will not come on
from New York until to-morrow--I 've had a wire. Have you any idea the
Prince will be with us to-morrow? Sir Arthur Baddeley will be down
from Bar Harbor for the week; Bob Marie is coming with your father, and
two or three of the Tuxedo crowd, Sallie and Blanche Turnure and Willie
Whipple will be here by Wednesday for the ball, certainly."

"I don't know, really," said Anne, "but I imagine so, of course."

Sara gazed at Mrs. Wellington curiously. It was true the woman was
outwardly unperturbed, characteristically so, but Sara had never before
been able to read in that mask-like face so many indications of inward
irritation. Anne's sly glance told her that she, too, had been able to
enjoy a rare opportunity of penetrating beneath the surface.

Mrs. Wellington toyed with her lorgnette for a moment.

"Anne, if Koltsoff returns and I don't see him, let me know the very
first minute, will you, please?" She glanced at the girl with an
expression best described as detached. "If it interests you any, my
daughter, you succeeded in making a sensation this afternoon--you and
Koltsoff. I gather that everything was done but placarding him; and I
have heard of at least eight persons you cut in the Casino."

"Oh--mother, by the way, if I am not too inquisitive," said Anne,
hastening to change the trend of thought, "I read, or heard, somewhere
that