"Eric is coming here to-night, and I'll talk it over with him. If he can spare the time to go to Paris, I think it would be a good thing."
"But if he doesn't know where she is?"
"I think I can guess," answered her grandmother. "Years ago, before the children were grown up, we used to go and stay at a little private hotel off the Avenue de la Grande Armée. In the autumn I recommended it to a friend of your mother's, and she was delighted with it. Judging from her description, I don't think it can have changed much. She told me that the granddaughter of the old Madame Peritôt remembered me perfectly and said that Connie, whom she described as 'la belle Madame,' often went there when she wished to be quiet. I feel sure she would wish to be quiet now, and I believe that if Eric goes there he will find her."
"Do you want him to bring her to London?" inquired Judy.
"I think I had better leave that to him," answered Madame Claire. ****** Eric went to Paris the day following. He had no idea, when he left, whether he would try to persuade Connie to come back to London or not. He would decide that when he had seen her. Nor
