Why do you ask ?" "_She_ saw Mr.Dunstable--and Miss Flink--in my uncle's studio, and she was so distressed to think what--what Lord Dunstable"-- there was a perceptible pause before the name--"would feel, if his son married her, that she determined to find out the truth about her.

She told me she had one or two clues, and I sent her to a cousin of mine--a very clever solicitor--to be advised.

That was yesterday morning.

Then I got my uncle to find out your son--and bring him to me yesterday afternoon before I started.

He came to our house in Kensington, and I told him I had come across some very doubtful stories about Miss Flink.