ast ceased to be actively displeasing.

That was the year before the young Queen came to her own, and in the
last days of her minority she was visiting all the cities of her future
dominion with the queen-mother. When Kenton's party left the station
they found Leyden as gay for her reception as flags and banners could
make the gray old town, and Trannel relapsed for a moment so far as to
suggest that the decorations were in honor of Boyne's presence, but he
did not abuse the laugh that this made to Boyne's further shame.

There was no carriage at the station which would hold the party of five,
and they had to take two vehicles. Trannel said it was lucky they wanted
two, since there were no more, and he put himself in authority to assort
the party. The judge, he decided, must go with Ellen and Breckon, and he
hoped Boyne would let him go in his carriage, if he would sit on the box
with the driver. The judge afterwards owned that he had weakly indulged
his dislike of the fellow, in letting him take Boyne, and not insisting
on going himself with Tramiel, but this was when it was long too
late. Ellen had her misgivings, but, except for that gibe about the
decorations, Trannel had been behaving so well that she hoped she might
trust Boyne with him. She made a kind of appeal for her brother, bidding
him and Trannel take good care of each other, and Trannel promised so
earnestly to look after Boyne that she ought to have been alarmed for
him. He took the lead, rising at times to wave a reassuring hand to her
over the back of his carriage, and, in fact, nothing evil could very
well happen from him, with the others following so close upon him. They
met from time to time in the churches they visited, and when they lost
sight of one another, through a difference of opinion in the drivers as
to the best route, they came together at the place Trannel had appointed
for their next reunion.

He showed himself a guide so admirably qualified that he found a way
for them to objects of interest that had at first denied themselves in
anticipation of the visit from the queens; when they all sat down at
lunch in the restaurant which he found for them, he could justifiably
boast that he would get them into the Town Hall, which they had been
told was barred for the day against anything but sovereign curiosity.
He was now on the best term with Boyne, who seemed to have lost all
diffidence of him, and treated him with an easy familiarity that sh