The Argosy — page 120: what you’re looking at

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108 Edina. Save a few spare pounds in his pocket for present passing exigencies, he had positively none. Daisy was not very strong yet, and could not be put about. She was going to stay mith her sister, Captain Townley’s wife, for two or three weeks, who had just come over from India with her children, and had taken a furnished house in London. Daisy wrote to her from Eagles’ Nest, proffering the visit: she saw what a conve- nience it would be to Frank to be “rid” of her, as she laughingly said, while he was looking about for some, place that they could settle in, Mrs. Townley’s answer had been speedy and cordial. “Yes, you can « come here, Daisy ; I shall be delighted to see you. But what a silly child you must have been to make the undesirable runaway marriage they tell me of! I thought all the St. Clares had better sense than that.” But the Tiger is not done with yet. On the day that Frank and his wife said farewell to Eagles’ Nest, and took the train for London, Frank jumped out of the carriage at an intermediate station, to get a newspaper. On his way to jump into it again, he had his eyes on the newspaper, and chanced to go up to the wrong compartment, the one behind his own. Swinging open the door, Frank saw there was no room for him, and at the same moment found his face in pretty close contact with another face: one adorned with a silky brown beard and the steadfast grey eyes Frank had learned to know. “ This compartment is full, sir.” How far back Frank recoiled at the words, at the sight, he never knew. Jt was the Tiger. With a sinking of the heart, a rush of dismay, he made his way into his own carriage ; and let the newspaper, that he had been eager for, drop uncared for between his knees. “He is following me to town,” cried Frank mentally, in -his deep conviction. ‘ He means to track me. How shall I escape him?” ( Zo be continued. > comicbooks.com