her face as he passed. He slept soundly that night, and dreamed
that he was crossing the ocean with her.

At breakfast he saw her, but if she saw him it was when he was
not looking at her. Once he caught Uncle Caspar staring at him
through his monocle, which dropped instantly from his eye in the
manner that is always self-explanatory. She had evidently called
the uncle's attention to him, but was herself looking sedately
from the window when Lorry unfortunately spoiled the scrutiny.
His spirits took a furious bound with the realization that she
had deigned to honor him by recognition, if only to call
attention to him because he possessed a certain coin.

Once the old gentleman asked him the time of day and set his
watch according to the reply. In Ohio the manservant scowled at
him because he involuntarily stared after his mistress as she
paced the platform while the train waited at a station. Again,
in Ohio, they met in the vestibule, and he was compelled to step
aside to allow her to pass. He did not feel particularly
jubilant over this meeting; she did not even glance at him.

Lorry realized that his opportunities were fast disappearing, and
that he did not seem to be any nearer meeting her than when they
started. He had hoped to get Uncle Caspar into a conversation
and then use him, but Uncle Caspar was as distant as an iceberg.
"If there should be a wreck," Grenfall caught himself thinking,
"then my chance would come; but I don't see how Providence is
going to help me in any other way."

Near the close of the day, after they left St. Louis, the train