If your Excellency will be down at the end of the quay to-morrow at noon you will find a carriage in waiting, and the driver will have full instructions how to take you to her and how to act.

Follow his directions implicitly, for he is a man I can trust." "To-morrow!" I cried anxiously.

"Why not to-day?
I am ready to go at any moment." The Chief of Police remained thoughtful for a few moments, then said-- "Well, if I could find the man, you might go to-day.

Yet it is a long way, and you would not return before to-morrow." "The roads are safe, I suppose?
I don't mind driving in the night." The official glanced at the clock, and rising exclaimed-- "Very well, I will send for the man.

If we find him, then the carriage will be at the same spot at the eastern end of the quay in two hours." "At noon.