I am an old customer at the hotel we are
going to; and if we find the place full, the landlord may be depended
on to take care of any letters with my name on them. A safe address in
London for your correspondence may be of the greatest importance. How do
we know Lecount may not write to you on her way to Zurich?"
"What a head you have got!" cried Noel Vanstone, eagerly taking the
envelopes. "You think of everything."
He left the carriage in high excitement, and ran back into the house. In
ten minutes more Captain Wragge had him in safe custody, and the horses
started on their return journey.
The travelers reached London in good time that evening, and found
accommodation at the hotel.
Knowing the restless, inquisitive nature of the man he had to deal with,
Captain Wragge had anticipated some little difficulty and embarrassment
in meeting the questions which Noel Vanstone might put to him on the way
to London. To his great relief, a startling domestic discovery absorbed
his traveling companion's whole attention at the outset of the journey.
By some extraordinary oversight, Miss Bygrave had been left, on the eve
of her marriage, unprovided with a maid.
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