I may retire to Europe.

You can trust the Swiss woman.

I will give her my orders." "All right! I will go and telegraph as soon as I can make my adieux.
When do you start for Calcutta ?" Hawke asked warily.
"The moment you get Anstruther's reply," decisively replied Johnstone.
"I'll be away for a couple of weeks in all!" Hawke turned paler than his wont, but he mused in silence and cheerfully finished his coffee and cognac.

In half an hour, he left an aching void in Justine Delande's bosom, but some subtle magnetism had so drawn Berthe Louison and the heart-stirred Justine together that Hugh Johnstone was happy, when, with courtly gallantry, he escorted the beauty, who had set Delhi all agog, to her garden-bowered nest.
"Have I kept my compact ?" said Berthe, as they stood once more in her "tiger's den." "You have, madame!" said Hugh Johnstone.

"I have been considering all.
I will leave secretly for Calcutta in two or three days.