'Captain, we are both warm, and punctilious on points of honour; this will come to a split between us if we don't mind.

So, not to bring matters to a crisis, lend me ten pounds here to enable me to get home, and I'll disappear.' In a state bordering on distraction, eager to get the young man out of his sight before worse revelations should rise up between them, De Stancy without pausing in his walk gave him the sum demanded.

He soon reached the post-office, where he inquired if a Mr.Somerset had left any directions for forwarding letters.
It was just what Somerset had done.

De Stancy was told that Mr.Somerset had commanded that any letters should be sent on to him at the Hotel Victoria, San Remo.
It was now evident that the scheme of getting money from Paula was either of Dare's invention, or that Somerset, ashamed of his first impulse, had abandoned it as speedily as it had been formed.

De Stancy turned and went out.