He lived in Phoenicia." "Then," continued Guy Oscard, "I shall go abroad." "Ah! Will you have a second cup?
Why will you go abroad ?" Guy Oscard paused for a moment.

"I know an old hippopotamus in a certain African river who has twice upset me.

I want to go back and shoot him." "Don't go at once; that would be running away from it--not from the hippopotamus--from the inquest.

It does not matter being upset in an African river; but you must not be upset in London by--an inquest." "I did not propose going at once," replied Guy Oscard, with a peculiar smile which Lady Cantourne thought she understood.

"It will take me some time to set my affairs in order--the will, and all that." Lady Cantourne waited with perfectly suppressed curiosity, and while she was waiting Millicent Chyne came into the room.