From the moment I first mentioned it to Mr.James Allerdyke until I arrived here just now and met Mr.Fullaway there, I never spoke of the matter to any one!" The official looked at Allerdyke as if inviting him to ask any question that occurred to him, and Allerdyke immediately brought up that which had been in his mind ever since his discovery of James Allerdyke's pocket-diary.
"How came you to repose such confidence in my cousin, ma'am ?" he asked brusquely.

"I always thought I was pretty deep in his counsels, but I never heard him mention your name.

Did he know you well ?" "I had known Mr.James Allerdyke for a little over a year," replied the Princess.

"I met him first in Paris--then on the Riviera--then in Russia.

The fact is, he did some business for me.