I was not engaged to Miss Natalie, Sexton; I was not even a friend.

I came to the house, employed to perform a certain task.

She introduced me as her fiance merely to explain my presence there, and make the way clear.

It was the impulse of a moment." "You don't say, sir! What, may I ask, was it you was expected to do ?" "To discover who was masquerading in this city under her name." "Was there some one, sir ?" "So she told me; we went into that rather thoroughly.

She claimed it had been going on for some months; checks had been cashed at the bank; even her servants had been approached by some one so closely resembling her as to deceive them; and she had been reported at various places she never visited.