simply marched through the station and pretended to have arrived by
train!"

Inspector Dunbar took out his notebook and fountain-pen, and began to
tap his teeth with the latter, nodding his head at the same time.

"You are sure of the accuracy of your last statement?" he said, raising
his eyes to the other.

"I followed one of them," was the reply, "and saw her footman gravely
take charge of the luggage which I had just brought from Victoria; and a
pal of mine followed the other--the Waterloo one, that was."

Inspector Dunbar scribbled busily. Then:--

"You have done well to make a clean breast of it," he said. "Take a
straight tip from me. Keep off the drink!"




X

THE GREAT UNDERSTANDING


It was in the afternoon of this same day--a day so momentous in the
lives of more than one of London's millions--that two travelers might
have been seen to descend from a first-class compartment of the Dover
boat-train at Charing Cross.