Bernard, on learning his misfortune, lent him another fifty, with which he performed a second series of unsuccessful experiments; and our hero was not at his ease until he had passed over to his luckless friend the whole amount of his own winnings, every penny of which found its way through Captain Lovelock's fingers back into the bank.

When this operation was completed, Bernard left Baden, the Captain gloomily accompanying him to the station.
I have said that there had come over Bernard a singular sense of freedom.

One of the uses he made of his freedom was to undertake a long journey.

He went to the East and remained absent from Europe for upward of two years--a period of his life of which it is not proposed to offer a complete history.

The East is a wonderful region, and Bernard, investigating the mysteries of Asia, saw a great many curious and beautiful things.