Why, your real husband is here on the coach with us!" He turned and pulled Considine forward, and once more husband and wife stood face to face.

Considine, alias Keogh, smiled in a sickly way, tried to meet his wife's eyes, and failed altogether.

She regarded him with a bold, unwinking stare.
"Him!" she said.

"Him me husban'! This old crockerdile?
I never seen him before in me life." A look of hopeless perplexity settled on Considine's features for a moment, and then a ray of intelligence seemed to break in on him.

She repeated her statement.
"I never seen this man before in me life.