He kept the diamond, which he had cut in San Francisco afterward, and handsomely set.
"For Lena," he said.
They made their way to the city of Rio and took the first steamer for Aspinwall, where they crossed the Isthmus to Panama, and took ship again for 'Frisco.
On their arrival they bought the Chronicle, and Jack read a paragraph in the fashionable intelligence:
"Miss Lena Vanhoosen and Mr. Alfred Vanhoosen are staying at Black's Hotel, in the Yosemite Valley."
"Dick," he exclaimed, "we must travel again."
"How?"
"Lena is in California."
That evening they were traveling toward Merced, and the next day they took the stage for the far-famed valley, where they hoped to meet the Vanhoosens.
Of Lord Maltravers they heard absolutely nothing.