Alan Hawke was carefully differential in his greeting and he meekly answered all the rapid queries of his mysterious employer.
"You have closed up your own private affairs ?" she briskly queried.
"All is ready for the road in one day more.

I have a private social engagement for to-morrow," he replied.

"But I brought you all the sailing dates and the detailed information you requested." "You obtained the pictures safely, then, and with a prudent caution," anxiously demanded Madame Louison.
"You shall know all soon.

I hope that I have satisfied you!" he said, handing her a packet, failing to tell her that he had kept two pictures of the far-away girl for his own private use.

They were now near the plateau where the Hotel Faucon shows its semi-circular front to the splendid panorama unrolled before its windows.
An afternoon concert was in progress at the Casino, near the local museum.