Rayner nodded. “Yes,” he said. “We have finished, and I am going. But I shall see you again, Joy, very shortly, certainly before I go to the North.”
Joy nodded and making his adieu Adrian Rayner passed out of the room.
CHAPTER XIV
MISSING
“MR. RAYNER is going to the North?” questioned Miss La Farge.
“Yes, he is going to Canada—and so am I, as early as possible. You will not mind accompanying me, Babette.”
“Mind! I shall be more than glad to get back to the silent North. This noisy London gets on my nerves, and the smell of the streets is horrible. It is petrol everywhere. The place reeks of it, and after the aromatic spruce woods the air here is like poison. I shall rejoice to go, and to hear the bell of the moose again in place of hideous motor horns.”
She looked at Joy, as she spoke, and there was a question in her eyes. Joy nodded.