If he should try to secretly make friends with the Frasers, and to return to India, to aid the nephew, he might assist in robbing Valerie's child of this mountain of miserably gotten wealth.
"Thank God, I can make her rich.

But Captain Anstruther will know the Viceroy's whole mind, and I can trust to him." But her cheeks were rosy red and her dancing dark eyes dropped in a sudden confusion, as the handsome aid-de-camp leaped aboard the steamer at Dover Pier.
"I did not expect you!" she murmured.
"I knew, of course, from your dispatch when you would arrive, and so I came down to further the Viceroy's business!" the soldier said in a sudden confusion.

In an hour, the two who had met in such strange manner at Geneva were seated alone in a first-class compartment, and were merrily whirling on to Lud's town.

Captain Anstruther's ten shillings to the guard secured them from annoying intrusion.

In another compartment, Jules and Marie Victor sagely exchanged their lightning glances of Parisian acuteness.
"C'est un homme magnifique!" murmured Marie, and Jules gravely nodded, "Peut-etre, notre maitresse l'a connu longtemps.