longer. You are tired and worn out with your long ride and the anxiety I
have caused you."

"You are dogging me!" she exclaimed indignantly.

"I am keeping you in sight, according to orders."

"You are a detective!" she asked, a little disarmed by his frankness.

"John O'Gorman by name, Miss. At home I have a little girl much like
you, but I doubt if my Josie--even though I have trained her--would
prove more shrewd than you have done under such trying circumstances.
Even in the train you recognized my profession--and I am thought to be
rather clever at disguising my motives."

"Yes?"

"And you know quite well that because you have come to Dorfield to join
your grandfather, whom you call Colonel Weatherby, I have followed you
in an attempt to discover, through you, the man for whom our government
has searched many years."

"Oh, indeed!"

"Therefore you are determined not to go to your destination and you are
at your wits' end to know what to do. Let me advise you, for the sake of
my own little Josie."

The abrupt proposal bewildered her.