Guy Garrick

opped just past us and Garrick was su

to us. She had motored down from Tuxedo immediately after receiving the message over the telepho

usual. Evidently her anxiety for Warrington was thoroughly genu

Garrick had been talking to her earnestly and now, having introduced her to Dr. Mead, the

nce down at the torn and twisted wreckage of the

r while the others went down the slope. "I mean how is he really? Is he like

nslow, believe me, neither Mr. Garrick nor Dr. Mead is concealing anything. It is pretty bad, of co

ed car to confirm what the doctor had already observed. It took several minutes for them to satisfy themselves

othing more than Dr. Mead had already told him. It was with considerable relief tha

ead and Garrick leading the way in the doctor's ca

and then she would ask a question about the accident, and although I tried in e

uld I repeated for her just what had

have been?" she asked turning tho

slow ever could be anything except a friend to either Garrick or myself. But I felt I could not resist the appeal in those eyes. I wondered if even they, by some magic intuition, mi

, "I have no more idea tha

uth and I felt that

caused her to look at me more searchingly than before. Suddenly she

an effort to control herself. It flashed over me, somehow, that perhaps, after all, she herself sus

crime in the calendar for a price? I did not pause to examine the plausibility or the impossibility of such a theory. What interested me was whether in her mind there was such a thought. Had she, pe

tastefully furnished little house. There was an air of quietness about it th

Miss Winslow, as Dr. Me

ere had been some good reason why he sho

, he may see visitors longer, but just now I think f

and prepare him for the visit. Meanwhile Miss Winslow waited

re comfortable, no further drug was necessary. In fact as his natural vitality due to his athletic habits and clean living asserted i

ftly tried to conceal as much as she could that would suggest how badly he was inju

her. Quickly and noiselessly, like a ministering angel, she seemed

"Mortimer!" the simple tone seemed t

n his face changed as he realized that it was indeed Violet herself. In spite of the pain of his hurts which must have been inten

brawny hand and rested it on hers. She did not withdraw it, but passed the other hand gently over his throbbing forehead. Never have I seen a greater tra

et for several seconds. They seemed content just

the silence, in answer to what he

dly off as he had when he had spoken before. "I didn't know-till they told me-that the estate owned

ysical effort to say. She seemed to realize it, but th

. Warrington was all that

in it the answer to the questionings that had sent him off i

ow recognised it as a signal that the t

her instant, and with a hasty word of sympathy and encouragement

nto a deep chair in the reception room, endeavouring not to give way to her feelings, n

? Perhaps if he had stayed in the city-they might

ression I had seen when she turned her face away in the car and

mistress of her feelings after Garrick's interruption that h

d. "I expect his progres

slowly rose and prepared to make t

s she had thrown carelessly on a chair when she entered, "I can't

convince your aunt as you that he

"that sometimes people with the best intentions ma

y she and her aunt were not ex

t. Altogether I felt that although they had seen each other only for a moment, it had done both good. Miss Winslow's fears had been quieted a

ct now that Warrington would pull through after

relieved by the promise of the doctor that she might c

and Garrick, having exhausted the possibilities of investigation at

whether we had had any visitors during our absence. No one had called at the apartment, but

t the office we found McBirney seated the

know was how it happened and how his client was. In a few words Garrick told him as much about it as was

e tires, "most remarkable of all, I am convinced that the car in which his assailant r

in surprise, "that car m

at do y

be certain of such things, but one of my men, who is scouting around the Tenderloin looking for what he can find, tells me that he saw a car near that gambling joint on Forty-

drove it?" asked

did not recognize jumped in it from the gambling house and they disappeared. Even though my ma

ion did they go

ere those fly-by-night g

Jersey ferries,"

sized driver," said McBirney a little sulkily because Ga

t running ahead of your story. The undersized man couldn't have figured in the case afterward, assumin

keeper of one of those night-hawk garages

agreed

ived ours, or at least such of it as Garrick chose to te

you could find out who he is and he should happen to be connected

vidently an expert driver of motor c

utes gazing squarely at me. Then he leaned bac

ambling joint in some way has got wind of the fact that Warrington is going t