t. I had failed, myself, but I hoped that with my lead he would get on to the scent and keep to it. Ere long,

as to go to her assistance. But he was still in the train, I could hear him plainly, speaking to Jules in the next compartment. Again, as we sped on, I reasoned favourably from their leaving me as I was, still under lock and key. No one came near me u

s did I rage and storm when Jules l'Ech

y for this,"

nd I'll take the law of you, Colonel Annesley; I'll get

u might have done. We can stand the racket. I've bested you for the present-

u know who she is

o," he answere

y word! She's got a nerve. I wonder s

f you dare to utter a single word against th

e papers, you must have read them, the most awful story, such-suc

ntly and looked so fierce that f

oth by word and deed. You'll never find her a

siness better than that, we don't go into it single-handed. You

hat counts," he

ng for me at Basle, who received my instructions there-just whe

uld see plainly. I thought at first he w

ted, "I believe the whole thing

"my duty is to my employers. I only account to

was more quietly. But he looked me very straight in th

ou to tell me things. You must go

ugh. "I'm always anxious to conciliate and avoid unpleasantness

How

not be mixed up in it. Have you any idea what that woman-tha

he was warming up into

uted for contempt and charged as an accessory after the fact.

y person who might make it disagreeable is L

. You cannot afford to fight him; he will be too strong for you. He has been made the victi

has happened. It would give me the greatest pleasure to kick him down the street.

lonel against an Earl! What sort of

ose laugh longest

and I began to think over my next plans. All must depend on wha

the corner of the great station, and on showing my card an envelo

n. I shall accompany. Can you join me at either end-Brieg or Domo Dossola? The sooner the better

and proceeded at once to verify the itinerary by the time-table, while I drank my early coffee in the restaurant upon the station platform. I was most

very least. He would be travelling by the one fast train in the day, which was due at Brieg at four o'clock in the afternoon. My fir

lway at Goeschenen I should strike the old Furka diligence route by the Devil's Bridge, Hospenthal, and the Rhone Gla

ached Brieg, taking a special carriage extra post as far as the Simplon at least, even into Domo Dossola. She was presumably in such a hurry that the night journey would hardly deter her from dri

reach Domo Dossola, the alternative suggestion made by Tiler. There would be no difficulty as to that, and I

no and into touch with the steamboat service on Lake Maggiore. There was a fixed connection according to the tables, and I should land at Pallanza within a short hour's dr

th a bang, replaced it in my bag, drank up my coffee, and started for the telegraph office. I meant to advise Tiler of my plans, and at the same ti

wished to see. It was the Colonel, who greeted me

led it all quite to your satisfaction? Done with Brad

began severely. "I beg you will not intrude upo

Aren't you afraid you may fall off or get knocked

police about, and the Swiss police do not approve of br

at you mean to do now," he

o not know you. I do not choose to know

make up your mind to that. Where you go, I go; what you do, I shall do. We are

be tolerated. I shall appeal fo

don't want to swagger, but at any rate all the world knows pret

yers; I have letters, testimonials,

l lose a good deal of time. I'm not in a hurry," he said with emphasis, and promptly recalled me to my senses, for I realized that I could not f

to stick to me? He had said it in so many words. He would no

iens as far as Lucerne only, leaving further plans as events might fall out. Now I desired to go on, but did not see how I was t

who was, as usual, hovering about to assist trav

best for him." And when the tourist agent proceeded on his mission to be

en I had asked and paid for my place to Locarno I heard, to my disgust, some one else app

he sleeping-car conductor, but out of uni

ll to be fellow traveller

giore? How about your service o

no, and have got a few da

onel's, who had set him to assist in watching me. I had two enemies then to encount