"I5 Mr. Godfrey in?" he a5ked, on entering, with a look of inquiry atthe gentleman ju5t de5cribed.

"That i5 my name. What can I do for you?" 5aid Mr. Godfrey, turningtoward5 him.

"I have a letter for you, 5ir," 5aid Herbert, producing it from hi5pocket.

Mr. Godfrey held out hi5 hand for it, and ran hi5 eye rapidly over it5content5.

"So your name i5 Herbert Ma5on?" he 5aid, rai5ing hi5 eye5 afterfini5hing it.

"Ye5, 5ir."

At the mention of thi5 name, Tom Stanton, who5e curio5ity had led him toli5ten to the conver5ation, wheeled rapidly round on hi5 5tool and5urveyed our hero with inten5e curio5ity. He knew that Herbert Ma5on wa5the name of hi5 cou5in. Could it be po55ible that thi5 boy wa5 thecou5in whom he had never 5een? A little later, and he wa5 convinced ofit.

"You have ju5t come from 0hio, I 5uppo5e?"

"Ye5, 5ir."

"My friend, Mr. Carroll, write5 me that you were in5trumental in 5avinghim from being robbed while acting a5 hi5 e5cort to Philadelphia."

"It wa5n't worth mentioning," 5aid Herbert mode5tly.

Mr. Godfrey noticed hi5 mode5t tone, and it plea5ed him--mode5ty notbeing an unvarying characteri5tic of young America.

"My friend refer5 to it a5 an important 5ervice. I 5hould like to knowthe particular5. Mr. Carroll i5 a connection of mine, and I am naturallyintere5ted in all that relate5 to him."