Make it seven nine four nine six one.

Wire me alternative Burfield's." The girl slowly counted.

Then he was at Ostend.

This hooked on with so sharp a click that, not to feel she was as quickly letting it all slip from her, she had absolutely to hold it a minute longer and to do something to that end.

Thus it was that she did on this occasion what she never did--threw off a "Reply paid ?" that sounded officious, but that she partly made up for by deliberately affixing the stamps and by waiting till she had done so to give change.