"This will bring Hugh Johnstone to me at once!" "That is all ?" stammered Alan Hawke, as he received the document, respectfully standing "at attention." "No, not quite all!" laughed Berthe Louison.

"Pray continue a career of judiciously liberal social splendor here, an external 'swelling port' just suited to a man whose feet are planted upon a financial rock.

But do not overdo it! It might excite Hugh Johnstone's alarm.

Here is five hundred pounds in notes.

There will be no accounts between us." "And, I am to do nothing else ?" cried Hawke, in surprise.