Have learnt that Captain D.S.

returns here to-morrow.

Please send me one hundred pounds by him, and save me from disgrace.

Will await him at eleven o'clock and four, on the Pont-Neuf.' V.
Five hours after the despatch of that telegram Captain De Stancy was rattling along the coast railway of the Riviera from Genoa to Nice.
He was returning to England by way of Marseilles; but before turning northwards he had engaged to perform on Miss Power's account a peculiar and somewhat disagreeable duty.

This was to place in Somerset's hands a hundred and twenty-five napoleons which had been demanded from her by a message in Somerset's name.