ing the city. Here she was, brought
accidentally into the same hotel with himself, and--. What else he
thought may be left to the imagination. "Yes, I remember," he said.
"And the other lady--Miss Harris, is she in the company?"

"No," said Leslie, "she does not appear to be." ("Appear to be!"--just
as if that scamp did not know where she was, and as if he had not a
letter in his pocket from her!) "No, see--Miss Crawford and her two
brothers, with another lady whose name I have never heard before."

The result of this discovery was that the parties met at breakfast, a
slight flush (corresponding to that of Harding a little while before)
mounting to the face of Bell Crawford as she introduced the two friends
to her brothers and Miss Hobart. Very naturally, thereafter, though
there was an overplus of males and a deficiency of females to make the
association perfect, the two parties blended, and in the future plans
for sight-seeing and amusement each made arrangements for and calculated
upon the other.

They were just passing from the breakfast-room--that cool breakfast and
dining-room of the Cataract, overlooking the lower rapids with the
clumped little islands near the bridge,--when Leslie caught sight of a
figure crossing the hall.

"Look--quick!" he said, touching the arm of Harding. "Look down the
hall. There he is, now! Do you not recognize him?"

Harding, to whom Leslie had of course told the story of his late
rencontre, looked in the direction indicated. Just for one instant the
face of the person alluded to was turned towards them, and Harding
plainly distinguished that it was that of the Virginian whom they had
seen at the corner of Houston Street on the night of the opening of this
story. He had but a moment to observe, for the tall man was almost at
the office-door, and in an instant he had disappeared through it. At the
same instant Marion Hobart uttered a quick, sharp cry, and staggered
against John Crawford, as if about to fall. All the party gathered
around her instantly, two or three of the waiters came up, and for the
moment attention was distracted from everything beside.

"I had a sudden pain here. I do not feel very well. If you please I will
go up to my room and lie down a little while. But I shall soon be
better," said the young Virginian girl, in response to the anxious
inquiries of her friends as to the cause of the sudden cry and the
evident paleness of her face.

In compliance with her wi