She handed the letter back to the young American.
"I have forwarded it home. Mrs. Thorne will think it missed us here; and mother can acknowledge it from home. Will you mail it when you go?"
"Thank you!" He put it in his pocket, and looked about for his things. But it was almost two hours later when he finally found them, and fully eleven when he left.
And then, as the girl followed him to the door, he recalled himself once more.
"By the way," he said, "you know Mr. Dunneston is quite worried as to whether or not it is his duty to lay all the facts he has gained about me before the police."
"Yes?" the girl asked.
"He really has a most damaging array, you know. But he has settled it with himself this way. He has promised that if I make one last and more daring attempt to-night and get away with it and the police can't catch me, he will let me sail free as far as he is concerned!"
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