“Certainly—that’s plain English. When are you going?” 272

“To-morrow morning.”

“Why this suddenness?”

“To get away quickly—to escape.”

“From Elaine?”

Croyden nodded.

Macloud smiled.

“He is coming to it, at last,” he thought. What he said was:—“You’re not going to be put to flight by a woman?”

“I am.—If I stay here I shall lose.”

“You mean?”