1060 BROADWAY, UPSTAIRS.
Miss Silver laughed.
"The gentleman wants to see the house, does he?
Of course he must see it, then, Higgins.

And he was asking questions of Dawson last night at the inn ?" "'Eaps of questions, Miss Silver, as bold as brass, all about Sir Everard and my lady--our young lady, you know.

Shall I fetch him up ?" "Certainly." There chanced to be no other visitor at the Court, and Sybilla received Mr.Parmalee with infinite smiles and condescension.
"Beg your pardon, miss," he said, politely; "sorry to put you to so much trouble, but I calculated on seeing this old pile before I left these parts, and as they told me down at the tavern this was the day--" "It is not the slightest trouble, I assure you," Miss Silver interposed.

"I am only too happy to have a stranger come and break the quiet monotony of our life here.

And, besides, it affords me double pleasure to make the acquaintance of an American--a people I intensely admire.