I went up to Birmingham to call on you after you had gone, and found that you had vanished and left no address.

The maid-servant declared that you had sailed in a ship called the 'Conger Eel'-- which I afterwards found out was Kangaroo.

And then she went down; and after a long time they published a full list of the passengers and your name was not among them, and I thought that after all you might have got off the ship or something.

Then, some days afterwards, came a telegram from Albany, in Australia, giving the names of Lady Holmhurst and the others who were saved, and specially mentioning 'Miss Smithers--the novelist' and Lord Holmhurst as being among the drowned, and that is how the dreadful suspense came to an end.

It was awful, I can tell you." Both of the young women looked at Eustace's face and saw that there was no mistaking the real nature of the trial through which he had passed.