"And which way did you come? The boat is not in yet?"
"By Calais. It was quicker. Now tell me what has happened."
Mrs. Costello looked carefully to see that the door was shut. Then she told Maurice who and what she feared, and how she could not even leave Bourg-Cailloux without help.
"Yet, I think I ought to leave," she said.
"Of course you ought," Maurice answered. "You must go to England."
CHAPTER XXIII.
"You must go to England," Maurice said decidedly. "It is an easy journey, and you would be quite safe there."
"But I ought not to go to England," Mrs. Costello answered rather uncertainly. "And Bailey might follow us there."
"I doubt that. By what you say, too, if he were in England, we might perhaps set the police to watch him, which would prevent his annoying you. However, the thing to do is to carry you off before he has any idea you are in Europe at all."