with pleasure, and said, "That is very
nice of you, but your father might think them necessary."

"This is my show--I mean, this matter is entirely in my hands; I look
after Elsie altogether. And I think we might consider it settled. My
name is Hildebrand Anne Beauleigh."

"Oh, you are the boy who borrowed the flying-machine!"

Tinker was charmed that she should take the right view of the matter;
he found that so many people, including the bulk of the English,
American, and Continental Press, were disposed, in an unintelligent
way, to regard him as having stolen it.

"Yes," he said.

"My name is Dorothy Rayner."

"Rayner," said Tinker with sudden alertness. "There is an American
millionaire called Rainer."

"I spell my name with a _y_," said Dorothy quickly.

Madame Butler once more raised her eyebrows.

"Well, when will you come to us? We are staying at the Hotel des
Princes at Monte Carlo."

"To-day is Wednesday. Shall we say Saturday morning?"

"Yes, that will do very well. Oh, by the way, I was quite
forgetting--about music."

"I'm afraid," said Dorothy, and her face fell, "I can't teach music."

"That's all right," said Tinker cheerfully. "My father was terribly
afraid that anyone I got would want to."

He explained to Dorothy their nomadic fashion of life, paid Madame
Butler her fee, bade them good-bye, and went his way.

On his return he found Elsie full of anxious curiosity, but his account
of his find set her mind at rest. He ended by saying, "It will be
awfully nice for you, don't you know? She looked as though she would
let you kiss her as often as you wanted to."

"But I shall kiss you just the same, night and morning," said Elsie
firmly.

"Of course, of course," said Tinker quickly, and by a manful effort he
kept the brightness in his face.

He told his father that he had found a governess.

"References all right?" said Sir Tancred.

"Yes, she carries them about with her," said Tinker diplomatically.

"I suppose I ought to see them, don't you think?"

"You will," said Tinker.

On her arrival on Saturday morning Dorothy found the children awaiting
her on the steps of the hotel; and to Tinker's extreme satisfaction,
she at once kissed Elsie. When she had been taken to her room, which
was next to Elsie's, and her trunks had been brought up, it was time to
go to dejeuner, and Tinker conducted her to the restaurant. They found
Sir Tancred and Lord Crosland already at tab