whose baby I had given the half of the contents of the patent
nursing-bottle. I called her and made her get into the
automobile, and then I let the young woman enter.

"Now," I said, "where to?"

"That," she said, "is what I do not know. When I left my home
this evening I left it forever, and I left a note of farewell to
my father, which he must have received and read by this time, and
if I went back he would turn me from the door in anger, for he is
a gentleman of the old school."

When I heard these words I was startled. "Can it be," I asked,
"that you have a brother henry?"

"I have," she admitted; "Henry Corwin is his name." This was
the name of the young man I had helped that very evening to marry
Madge. I told her to proceed.

"My father," she said, "has been insisting that I marry a man I
do not love, and things have come to such a point that I must
either accede or take things into my own hands. I agreed to elope
this evening with the man I love, for he had long wished me to
elope with him. I was to meet him outside his house at exactly
one-fifteen o'clock, and I told him that if I was not there
promptly he might know I had changed my mind. When the time came
for me to hasten to him in my automobile, which was then to hurry
us to a waiting minister, my automobile was not here.
Unfortunately I did not know my lover's address, for I had left
it in the card pocket in this automobile. I knew not what to do.