I feel it my duty, therefore, to be constantly at hand." Again there was a flash of that strange look in the girl's face.

She leaned forward, but her father declined to meet her gaze.
"May I ask one or two personal questions ?" she faltered.

"Remember, I have not seen or heard anything from either of you for seven months." "By all means, my dear," the professor declared.

"Your sister, I am glad to say, is well.

I myself am as you see me.