"You're ever so much nicer as a girl." Honk! honk! sounded over by the road.

The noise continued.
"Greg," said Dick, "that's Miss Sharp's father's man.

Evidently he wants something.

You'd better run over." In less than five minutes back came Greg with three other men, all of them unexpected.

Mr.Alonzo Hibbert, minus his four-quart hat, and wearing a flat straw hat instead, as well as light clothes and silk negligee shirt, came in advance of Tom Colquitt, the man from Blinders' detective agency.