and they walked along the platform to the waiting carriage.
\"Ah, how awfully kind of the van der Luydens—they've sent their man over from Skuytercliff to meet us,\" Archer exclaimed, as a sedate person out of livery approached them and relieved the maid of her bags.
\"I'm extremely sorry, sir,\" said this emissary, \"that a little accident has occurred at the Miss du Lacs': a leak in the water-tank. It happened yesterday, and Mr. van der Luyden,
and they walked along the platform to the waiting carriage.
\"Ah, how awfully kind of the van der Luydens—they've sent their man over from Skuytercliff to meet us,\" Archer exclaimed, as a sedate person out of livery approached them and relieved the maid of her bags.
\"I'm extremely sorry, sir,\" said this emissary, \"that a little accident has occurred at the Miss du Lacs': a leak in the water-tank. It happened yesterday, and Mr. van der Luyden,
