“Any message for Captain Latell?�
“Tell him to keep a sharp lookout at all times, and to watch for signals from me. Have his telephone ready.�
“It is always ready, mademoiselle. He has it in his own window, and some one is always near.�
“Good! That’s all.�
Kennedy and Groton slid down the rope to the boat. The baroness untied it from the handle of her door and threw the rope after them.
The wire was again coiled, and, with the leaden weight, was in her black leather bag, which fastened with a strong patent lock.
Before finally leaving Lord Vinton’s room, after her victim had been brought to her own apartment, she had gone back to shoot the bolt and lock into place again. Also, she had used her steel implements to close the door, in about the same way as she had opened it, but by a reverse process.
Now, when a soft splash, as the oars dipped, told her the boat was on its way back to the yacht, she closed the window, looked about her with a satisfied sigh, and then went calmly to her bedroom.
Ten minutes later, this mysterious and beautiful girl, who could carry out such an audacious enterprise as that just finished without showing any particular emotion, lay down, without removing her attire, and, almost at once, seemed to be sound asleep.
When Florine went in to brush her employer’s hair the next morning, the maid thought she never had seen the baroness look fresher or seem in better spirits.