"
"Nevertheless, Dorothy, I thoroughly appreciate what you have done.
You did not wish any one to know you were corresponding with him, and
yet you never hesitated a moment when you saw I was anxious."
"Indeed, Kate, there was nothing to conceal. Ours is a very ordinary
exchange of letters. I have only had two: one at Bar Harbor a few days
after he left, and another longer one since we came to the hotel,
written from England."
"Did the last one go to Bar Harbor, too? How came you to receive it
when we did not get ours?"
"It did not go to Bar Harbor. I gave him the address of my lawyers in
New York, and they forwarded it to me here. Lieutenant Drummond was
ordered home by some one who had authority to do so, and received the
message while he was sitting with me on the night of the ball. He had
got into trouble with Russia. There had been an investigation, and he
was acquitted. I saw that he was rather worried over the order home
and I expressed my sympathy as well as I could, hoping everything
would turn out for the best. He asked if he might write and let me
know the outcome, and, being interested, I quite willingly gave him
permission, and my address. The letter I received was all about a
committee meeting at the Admiralty in which he took part. He wrote to
me from the club in Pall Mall to which I have addressed this
cablegram."
There was a sly dimple in Katherine's cheeks as she listened to this
straightforward explanation, and the faintest possible suspicion of a
smile flickered at the corner of her mouth.
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