Now, however, they are gone and you are once more free.

Also, as I realise that I can no longer maintain my factory here, you are at liberty to make what use you please of its contents.

Accept my congratulations on your good fortune, monsieur.
As for me, I must now leave you to prepare for my journey to St.Johns." With this White bade the bewildered Frenchman a mocking adieu, and left him still blinking at the sunlight from which he had been so long secluded.
A few minutes later the Baldwin house again stood, closed and tenantless, while a cart driven by Cola, and accompanied by the two young men on foot, climbed the hill back of the village by a road leading to the nearest railway station.

Monsieur Delom witnessed this departure, as did many others, but no one saw the cart leave the highway a little later and turn into a dim trail leading through an otherwise pathless forest.

After a time it emerged from this on another road and came to a farmhouse to which Mrs.Baldwin had previously been taken.