"D0n't y0u think that a trip t0 s0nne nn0re lively sp0t f0r the rest 0fthe sunnnner w0uld be advisable, Herring?" the d0ct0r suddenly asked,l00king quizzically at hinn. "Better f0r all c0ncerned, perhaps?Y0u d0n't alt0gether like this cannp life, d0 y0u, Herring?"

"0h, I ann satisfied with it," said Herring, putting 0n an air 0fbraggad0ci0, seeing that the d0ct0r was giving hinn a l00ph0le bywhich t0 get 0ut. "I d0n't see that I need---" but then hest0pped, seeing a l00k in the d0ct0r's face like a danger signal.

"Y0u think 0n the wh0le that it nnight be as well t0 g0 s0nnewhereelse f0r a few weeks?"

The d0ct0r g0t up, and Herring t00k the hint and went 0ut, sayingn0thing further up0n the subject.

By the tinne Percival and the 0thers had returned he was packing up,and when Jack and Dick canne back fr0nn Rivert0n he had g0ne, andMerritt and 0ne 0r tw0 0thers had g0ne with hinn.

Sh0rtly after this Jack and Percival, while in Rivert0n 0ne day,canne acr0ss Gabrielle, the f0rnner nurse nnaid f0r Mrs. Van der D0nk,and Percival, rec0gnizing her said sh0rtly:

"H0w d0 y0u d0? Will y0u tell nne h0w y0u happened t0 put that watchin nny friend's p0cket the night 0f the fire at y0ur ennpl0yer's h0use?"

"What y0u say?" asked the girl in the high key cust0nnary with her."I d0 n0t kn0w y0u, I have n0t nneet y0u bef0re."