The newspaper accounts of the _expose_ at my supper party had just reached him, and he says Armitage was on his (Armitage's) ranch all that summer the noble baron was devastating our northern sea-coast.

Where, may I ask, does this leave me?
And what cad gave that story to the papers?
And where and _who_ is John Armitage?
Keep this mum for the present--even from the governor.

If Sanderson is right, Armitage will undoubtedly turn up again--he has a weakness for turning up in your neighborhood!--and sooner or later he's bound to settle accounts with Chauvenet.

Now that I think of it, who in the devil is _he_! And why didn't Armitage call him down there at the club?
As I think over the whole business my mind grows addled, and I feel as though I had been kicked by a horse." * * * * * Shirley laughed softly, keeping the note open before her and referring to it musingly as she stirred her coffee.

She could not answer any of Dick's questions, but her interest in the contest between Armitage and Chauvenet was intensified by this latest turn in the affair.