I asked Calder when he got back to Halfa to make inquiries, to find and help Harry Feversham if he could; I asked him, too, to let me know the result.

I received a letter from Calder a week ago, and I am troubled by it, very much troubled." "What did he say ?" Ethne asked apprehensively, and she turned in her chair away from the moonlight towards the shadows of the room and Durrance.

She bent forward to see his face, but the darkness hid it.

A sudden fear struck through her and chilled her blood, but out of the darkness Durrance spoke.
"That the two women and the old Greek had gone back northward on a steamer to Assouan." "Mr.Feversham remained at Wadi Halfa, then?
That is so, isn't it ?" she said eagerly.
"No," Durrance replied.

"Harry Feversham did not remain.