Then, remembering that he had already said enough to arouse curiosity, which might easily be developed into suspicion, he determined his course.

In a few words the brief story was frankly told, and apparently proved quite amusing to Miss Spencer.
"Oh, that was Naida, beyond a doubt," she exclaimed, with a laugh of satisfaction.

"It is all so characteristic of her.

I only wonder how she chanced to guess your name; but really the girl appears to possess some peculiar gift in thus discerning facts hidden from others.

Her instincts seem so finely developed that at times she reminds me of a wild animal." This caustic inference did not please him, but he said nothing, and the music coming to a pause, they slowly traversed the room.
"I presume, then, she is not present ?" he said, quietly.
Miss Spencer glanced into his face, the grave tone making her apprehensive that she might have gone too far.
"She was here earlier in the evening, but now that you remind me of it, I do not recall having noticed her of late.