Tell me a little about this Miss Delora." "I'll bring her to see you presently, Ralph," I answered.
"You are in earnest, then ?" he remarked, with a smile.
"I believe so," I answered.
He looked at me once more, searchingly.
"There is something on your mind, Austen," he said,--"something bothering you.

I believe it is about these Deloras, too.

Is there something about them which you can't understand, eh ?" "There is, Ralph," I admitted.

"You saw what Dicky said.

They are people of consequence in their own country, at any rate, yet over here the man seems to behave like a hunted criminal." "Dicky also said," Ralph remarked, "that the man was intrusted with some business over here for his government.