Major Hawke swore a deep and bitter oath as he penned a telegram to the Swiss preceptress: "Coming to-night.

Arrive to-morrow at ten o'clock.

Keep all secret." And he boldly signed the name "Alan Hawke" to that and to a message to Captain Anson Anstruther: "Delayed four days here by private business." He raged as he hastily soliloquized: "I will at once present these drafts regularly through the Credit Lyonnais.

I will go and get the whole story from Justine.

I will pay off that tiger cat, Madame Louison, for her sneaking away.