THE STEAM YACHT Copplestone had seen and learned enough of Audrey Greyle during his brief stay at Scarhaven to make him assured that she would not have sent for him save for very good and grave reasons.

It had been with manifest reluctance that she had given him her promise to do so: her entire behaviour during the conference with Mr.Dennie and Gilling had convinced him that she had an inherent distaste for publicity and an instinctive repugnance to calling in the aid of strangers.

He had never expected that she would send for him--he himself knew that he should go back to her, but the return would be on his own initiative.

There, however, was her summons, definite as it was brief.

He was wanted--and by her.