"You said that to protect me?"
"Yes; and because we hope that you will do so."
"Then you are going on as you had planned?"
"Fortunately, Mr. Preston," Mrs. Varris explained, "I had given Elsie, the maid, ten pounds to settle the hotel account last night, and she has enough left to take us to Lincoln, where we have a banking connection which will furnish us with funds upon cabled instructions from America. We have decided to take the nine o'clock train directly to Lincoln. As I just said, we hope that you will accompany us after going through with the necessary police formalities."
"I am sure," the girl went on, "that father will wish us to keep on with our original plans for the rest of the summer. And, as mother says, Mr. Preston, we hope you will travel with us for a few days to give us some opportunity of righting the wrong we did you this morning."
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