THE FRIEND AND THE GIRL HE LEFT BEHIND HIM After Jack had been whirled out of London, Franklin called at his lodgings and learned that he had not been seen for a day.

The wise philosopher entertained no doubt that the young man had taken ship agreeably with the advice given him.

A report had been running through the clubs of London that Lionel Clarke had succumbed.

In fact he had had a bad turn but had rallied.

Jack must have heard the false report and taken ship suddenly.
Doctor Franklin went that day to the meeting of the Privy Council, whither he had been sternly summoned for examination in the matter of the letters of Hutchinson et al.