“You hear him?” he remarked, looking impressively around. Sydney Courtlaw, live here, please?” Anna asked him. " "But I'm used to that, Hoddy," she said, eagerly. But as Rowland sprang to the helm, and gave the signal for pursuit, a roar like a volley of ordnance was heard aloft, and the wind again burst its bondage. Her eyes were lit with mirth, the corners of her mouth quivered. “Where to?” he asked, as the hansom drove up. She was too late. “Of course,” she said diffidently, “this is a boarding-house, although we never take in promiscuous travellers. The decision had been sound. Man or woman.