While he was standing at the window an open carriage turned out of the market-place, and drove up to the 'Yellow Boar.' Lord Cranston got down from it, and a lady.

The candidate was of a short and slight build; a pencil--line of black moustache crossed a pallid and indecisive face, and he seemed a year or two more than thirty.

The lady looked the younger, and was certainly the taller of the two.

Drake was impressed by her face, which bore womanly gentleness, stamped on features of a marked intellectuality.

The couple disappeared into the hall, and appeared again in a large room with big windows upon the first floor.