Even now Lawrence had time to look at them for a few moments before they turned their eyes upon him.
Equally astonished were the two people on the porch, who now arose to their feet.

Junius Keswick naturally wondered very much why Mr Croft should come to see him here; and as for the young lady, she was almost as much terrified as surprised.

Had this man come down from New York to swoop upon her cousin?
Had it been possible that she could have given him any idea of the whereabouts of Junius?
In her last note to him she had been very careful to promise information, but not to give any, hoping thus to gain time to get an insight into the matter, and to keep her cousin out of danger, if, indeed, any danger threatened.

But here the pursuer had found Junius in less than a day after she had first met him herself.

But when she saw Junius advance and shake hands in a very friendly way with Mr Croft, her terror began to decrease, although her surprise continued at the same high-water mark, and Keswick found himself in a flood of the same emotion when Croft very politely saluted his cousin by name, which salutation was returned in a manner which indicated that the parties were acquainted.
At first Croft had been prompted to ignore all knowledge of the cashier, and meet her as a stranger, but his better sense prevented this, for how could he know what she had been saying about him.
"I was about to introduce you to my cousin," said Keswick, "but I see that you already know each other." "I have had the pleasure of meeting Mrs Null in New York," said Lawrence, to whom the word cousin gave what might be called a more important surprise than anything with which this three-sided interview had yet furnished its participants.