And finding myself just then in the neighbourhood of the North British Railway Station, I went in and managed to make out that if Mr.Lindsey was at the office when my wire arrived, and acted promptly in accordance with it, he and they could reach Dundee by a late train that evening.

That knowledge, of course, made me in a still more light-hearted mood.

But there was another source of my satisfaction and complaisance: things were in a grand way now for my revenge on Sir Gilbert Carstairs, and what had been a mystery was one no longer.
I went back to the dock where I had left the tramp-steamer, and told its good-natured skipper what I had done, for he was as much interested in the affair as if he had been my own brother.

And that accomplished, I left him again and went sight-seeing, having been wonderfully freshened up and restored by my good sleep of the morning.

I wandered up and down and about Dundee till I was leg-weary, and it was nearly six o'clock of the afternoon.