He stopped, and for a moment Damer and Alton stood face to face.

The latter, however, passed on, and swept his glance round the room, seeing only a man he did not recognize sitting at the opposite end with his back to him.

Then he swung round again, and went down the stairway shouting, "Horton!" until a man came out from a shed at the back of the store.
"Well," he said, "I'm here.

You needn't raise the whole place, Harry." Alton laughed.

"I've been up to Grantly's, and he's going in to the railroad to-morrow.