“Of course; but don’t be gone long, Dick. Hurry back as fast as you can, and perhaps you may get here as soon as she does.”
“I will lose no time.”
“But you are just off a journey. Won’t you take something before you go?”
“No, Anna; I will wait until I get back,” answered Richard Hammond, as he arose and left the room.
Leaving Anna pacing the floor in great excitement and impatience, he went down to the street, threw himself into a hansom and drove immediately to Scotland Yard.
There he made his report, and offered from his own means an additional reward to accelerate the motions of the officers.
He hurried back to the Morley House and up to the drawing-room, where he found Anna still pacing the floor.
She turned suddenly around to meet him.
“I have started them on the new scent, dear,” he said, throwing himself wearily into a chair.
“And you are here, as I hoped, before Drusilla has returned; so she will not have to wait for her news.”