I will come in this evening for a chat." Millicent sat without speaking for some minutes after he had left the room.

Mrs.Cunningham, whose hands were always busy, took some work out of a bag and set to work at it industriously.

Presently the girl said: "What business is this that Mark is going to occupy himself in ?" "I do not know much about it," she replied.

"But from a few words which he let drop I believe that he intends to devote himself to discovering and hunting down your uncle's murderer." The listless expression faded out at once of Millicent's face.
"But surely, Mrs.Cunningham, that will be very dangerous work." "No doubt it will be dangerous work, but I don't think that that is likely to hinder Mark.

The man, whoever he may be, is of course a desperate character, and not likely to be captured without making a fierce struggle for it." "Then he ought to put the matter in the hands of the proper authorities," Millicent said decidedly.