make yourself useful you'll find I can pay well. There will be
plenty of chances for you to make a little money--if you know how
to take them."

"When it's money," growled Dunn, "you give me the chance, and see."

"I think," added Deede Dawson, "I think it might improve your looks
if you shaved."

Dunn passed his hand over the tangle of hair that hid his features
so effectually.

"What for?" he asked.

"Oh, well: please yourself," answered Deede Dawson; "I don't know
that it matters, and perhaps you have reasons of your own for
preferring a beard. Come on up to the house now and I'll tell Mrs.
Dawson to give you some breakfast. And you might as well have a
wash, too, perhaps--unless you object to that as well as to shaving."

Dunn rose without answering, made his toilet by shaking off some of
the dust that clung to him, and followed his new employer out of the
tool-house into the open air.

It was a fresh and lovely morning, and coming towards them down one
of the garden paths was Ella, looking as fresh and lovely as the
morning in a dainty cotton frock with lace at her throat and wrists.

That she could possibly have spent the night tearing across country
in a powerful car conveying a dead man to an unknown destination,