I wish you liked her, and would influence Henry to like her, for I see that you have influence with him." She made no response by word or sign.
The ladies soon retired, and Graydon waited in vain for another interview with Miss Wildmere.

While he was looking for her on the piazza she passed in and disappeared.

He at last discovered Mr.
Arnault, who was smoking and making some memoranda, and, turning on his heel, he strode away.

"She might have said good-night, at least," he thought, discontentedly, "and that fellow Arnault did not look like a man who had received his _conge."_ That this gentleman did not regard himself as out of the race was proved by his tactics the next morning.

Before reaching the city he joined Mr.Muir in the smoking section of a parlor car, and easily directed their talk to the peculiar condition of business.