CHAPTER XXIV

JESSIE STRIKES.

It was the afternoon before Vane's departure for the north, and Evelyn, sitting alone for the time being in Mrs. Nairn's drawing-room, felt disturbed by the thought of it. She sympathised with his object, but she supposed there was a certain risk attached to the journey, and that troubled her. In addition to this there was another point on which she was not altogether pleased. She had twice seen Vane acknowledge a bow from a very pretty girl whose general appearance suggested that she did not belong to Evelyn's own walk of life, and that very morning she had noticed him crossing a street in the young woman's company. Vane, as it happened, had met Kitty Blake by accident and had asked her to accompany him on a visit to Celia.

Evelyn did not think she was of a jealous disposition, and jealousy appeared irrational in the case of a man whom she had dismissed as a suitor; but the thing rankled in her mind. While she considered it, Jessie Horsfield entered the room.

"I'm here by invitation, to join Vane's other old friends in giving him a good send-off," she explained.

Evelyn noticed that Jessie laid some stress upon her acquaintance with Vane, and wondered if she had any motive for doing so.

"I suppose you have known him for some time," she said.

"Oh, yes," was the careless answer. "My brother was one of the first to take him up when he came to Vancouver."

Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.

1. The north
2. In a drawing-room.
3. Mrs. Nairn's
4. Yes
5. Not really.
6. Yes
7. Yes
8. Yes
9. Kitty Blake
10. She saw him twice acknowledge a bow
11. Yes
12. No
13. That morning
14. On the street
15. to visit Celia
16. Yes
17. Jessie Horsfield
18. To give him a send off
19. Yes
20. Vancouver

Numbered questions:
1. Where Vane is going?
2. Where is Evelyn?
3. Whose?
4. Was she by herself?
5. Was she in good mood?
6. Did she think the journey would be risky?
7. Did it bother her?
8. Does she have another reason for not to be happy?
9. Who did she see greeted Vane?
10. How many times she saw that?
11. Was the girl good looking?
12. Was she of the same social class as hers?
13. When she saw him with her?
14. Where?
15. Where they were going?
16. Did Evelyn ever reject him?
17. Who appeared while she was thinking these?
18. Why he came?
19. Did she think he knew him?
20. Where his brother saw him?