him.

He went, with a lingering glance backward. Becky, catching that glance,
waked suddenly to the fact that he was very good-looking. "It was kind
of him to offer, Randy."

"Was it?"

Nothing more was said, but Becky wondered a bit as they drove on. She
liked Major Prime. He was an old dear. But why had Randy thanked Heaven
that the other man was not the Major?


III

The Waterman motor passed the surrey, and Dalton, straining his eyes for
a glimpse of the pretty girl, was rewarded only by a view of Randy on
the front seat with his back turned on the world, while he talked with
someone hidden by the curtains.

Perhaps the fact that she was hidden by the curtains kept Dalton's
thoughts upon her. He felt that her beauty must shine even among the
shadows--he envied Major Prime, who sat next to her.

The Major was aware that his position was enviable. It was worth much to
watch these two young people, eager in their reunion. "Becky Bannister,
whom I have known all my life," had been Randy's presentation of the
little lady with the shining hair.

"Grandfather doesn't know that I came, or Aunt Claudia. They felt that