CHAPTER XIII

As luck would have it, Noll’s letter was handed to Lane Sperling the second afternoon, while he was at the Cunard office taking up the tickets he had reserved for Dimny and Katherine and himself. He gave it to Dimny when he called at the Devoe home with the passports. Katherine cried: “Aha! a deadly rival. I knew she had a young man concealed somewhere. And a special-deviltry stamp on it, too!” Dimny was puzzled. She took the letter, but did not recognize the handwriting. With a mumbled apology she opened it and gl…