"Then she has talked to you?"
"No; nothing further than that. He telegraphed from Washington yesterday that he would stop off in New York while the Mexican officer, with an interpreter from the office here, would go on to Albany for the signature of the governor to those papers. By tomorrow night, or the next at furthest their bird will be landed, and then I fancy Jessica will let your beautiful ward take her own course."
"Shall you return to Mexico with them?"
"Certainly. That is necessary in order to pocket the rest of the money."
Mrs. Chalmers could not quite control the sigh of relief that bubbled through her lips in spite of effort.
Meriaz smiled.
"You will go with me, Louise?"
"I?" she stammered.
"Yes. You have always told me that it was a question of money that kept us apart. With the start I shall have when this trial is over I should have to be a poor financier indeed, if I could not make my fortune."
"But you will—wait until you have made it?