“I wanted just to tell you—he left a full confession; and—and it showed how the Baron had been right in almost every particular.”

She made no answer for a little; but presently she said softly, “I think I should like to be the one, Frank, to write and tell him so.”

“Yes, Audrey.”

Again the silence fell between them, and again she broke it in the same tone.

“We heard from Hughie this morning—only a short letter. He wrote from Karachi, where they had just landed. They were going straight on to Rawul Pindi.”

He nodded.

“Now let us talk of something else.”

[The End]

FOOTNOTES.

[1] Found in manuscript.