There was nothing left for me to do but to wait and hear what they had to say, before I decided whether or no to make my graceful exit from the stage." "Go on," she commanded.

"What happened exactly ?" "We were kept there," he continued, "until this morning, waiting until Engleton was well enough to make up his mind what to do.

The end is simple enough.

Considering that but for that girl's intervention Engleton would have been in the sea by now, and he knows it, I suppose it might have been worse.

I have signed a paper undertaking to leave England within forty-eight hours, and never to show myself in this country again.