THE MOST SURPRISING ADVENTURE OF ALL The children had been back two or three days, and Kink was still on the road, when one morning a telegram came from him saying that he had reached Hounslow, and Robert asked if they might all walk out to meet him, and so return home triumphantly in a body.

Mrs.Avory agreed, and they trooped off, after the briefest lunch, taking Horace Campbell and the Rotherams with them.
They had been gone two or three hours, and Mrs.Avory was sitting talking with Runcie, when Eliza Pollard brought a card on the brass tray that Janet had repoussed for her mother's last Christmas present.
It ran: MR.

HENRY AMORY The Red House, Chiswick, W.
"I don't know him," said Mrs.Avory.

"What is he like ?" "Well, mum," said Eliza Pollard, "he's a short gentleman with a red face and two boys, and he seems very angry." "Ask him what he wants to see me about," said Mrs.Avory.
"I did," said Eliza Pollard, "and he said he could not tell me, but the matter was of the highest importance." Mrs.Avory took the card and descended to the drawing-room, where the visitors were waiting for her.
Mr.Amory bowed.

"Pardon me, madam," he said, "but I have come to know what you have done with my caravan." "Your caravan!" "Yes, madam, my caravan.