You can't go without seeing Nelly and the baby." "Nice calling rig I've got on, haven't I ?" laughed Cabot.

"Why, it would scare 'em stiff.

So not to-day, thank you; but I'll come to-morrow." The carriage that Cabot engaged to carry him across to the city cost him his last cent of money, but he knew it was well worth it when, still in furs and with his snowshoes still strapped to his back, he entered the Gotham building.

Such a sensation did he create that he would have been mobbed in another minute had he not dodged into an elevator and said: "President's room, please." He so petrified Mr.Hepburn's clerks and office boys by his remarkable appearance that they neglected to check his progress, and allowed him to walk unchallenged into the sacred private office.

Its sole occupant was writing, and did not notice the entrance until Cabot, laying a folded paper on his desk, said: "Here is that Bell Island report, Mr.Hepburn." The startled man sprang to his feet with a face as pale as though he had seen a ghost, and for a few moments stared in speechless amazement at the fur-clad intruder.