For a full minute he listened to the advancing clatter, and presently, around an angle of the road, a chaise and pair broke into view, and came up at a gallop.
Sam advanced a step or two; a white handkerchief was thrust out at the window, and the driver pulled up suddenly.

Then the face of Mrs.
Goodwyn-Sandys looked anxiously out.
"Ah! you are there," she exclaimed with a little cry of relief.
"I have been so afraid.

Have you got it ?" In the moonlight, and that pretty air of timidity on her face, she was more ravishing than ever.

Her voice called as a siren's; her eyes drew Sam irresistibly.

In a second all his fears, doubts, scruples, were flung to the winds.