Delora's deportment was more the deportment of a fugitive from justice than of a man in the confidence of his government.
Walking a little carelessly, I took a turn too far northward, and found myself in one of the streets leading out of Shaftesbury Avenue.

I was on the point of taking a passage which would lead me more in my proper direction, when my attention was attracted by a large motor-car standing outside one of the small foreign restaurants which abound in this district.

I was always interested in cars, but I noticed this one more particularly from the fact of its utter incompatibility with its surroundings.

It was one of the handsomest cars I had ever seen,--a sixty to eighty horse-power Daimler,--fitted up inside with the utmost luxury.

The panels were plain, and the chauffeur, who sat motionless in his place, wore dark livery and was apparently a foreigner.