'I'm goin' to Africa,' he says.

'Come and help me pack.'" "Did you see the telegram--by any chance ?" asked Miss Chyne.
"Well, miss, I didn't rightly read it." Millicent had given way to a sudden panic on the receipt of Guy's note.
A telegram calling him to Africa--calling with a voice which he obeyed with such alacrity that he had not paused to finish his dinner--could only mean that some disaster had happened--some disaster to Jack Meredith.

And quite suddenly Millicent Chyne's world was emptied of all else but Jack Meredith.

For a moment she forgot herself.

She ran to the room where Lady Cantourne was affixing the family jewelry on her dress, and, showing the letter, said breathlessly that she must see Guy Oscard at once.