"I am afraid you got rather a sharp knock yourself, Mr.Lopez ?" "I did get a knock, certainly;--but the odd part of it is that I knew nothing about it till I found the blood in my eyes after they had decamped.

But I lost my hat, and there is a rather long cut just above the temple.

It hasn't done me the slightest harm.

The worst of it was that they got off with Everett's watch and money." "Had he much money ?" "Forty pounds!" And Lopez shook his head, thereby signifying that forty pounds at the present moment was more than Everett Wharton could afford to lose.

Upon the whole he carried himself very well, ingratiating himself with the father, raising no question about the daughter, and saying as little as possible of himself.