which he halted and stared. The housekeeper did not follow him but turned around in her chair and watched him.
"Why did you go there?" she whispered when he returned.
"Go where?" he asked.
"Never mind, sir. Hush!"
"Why?"
"The servants, sir."
Barney silently observed the housekeeper and knew that, in her present agitation, she would trust herself to say nothing more. "What do you want me to do?" he asked.
"You give me the promise I asked, sir?"
"Yes."
"I'm watched, I know, sir," Mrs. Wain said. "By some one of the Cullens. Are you watched too?"
"Yes," said Barney.
"But I know how to avoid it, when I wish. Do you?"
"It's not impossible," Barney replied.
"Then you will meet me, sir—when you're sure you're alone?"
"Where?"
"At the corner of Tenth and Wabash. You know where that is?"
"I'll find it. When?"
"As soon as I can be there, sir."
Barney went immediately downtown and, entering Field's, he waited before an elevator until it was so filled that the attendant would admit only one other person; he went in, ascended a few floors, crossed to the far end of the building, descended and took a street car to Tenth and Wabash. He had to wait on the
