Very much obliged to you, sir." The porter withdrew, entirely satisfied with his tip.

Philip Romilly locked the door after him carefully.

Then he drew a bunch of keys from his pocket and, after several attempts, opened both the steamer trunk and the dressing-case.

He surveyed their carefully packed contents with a certain grim and fantastic amusement, handled the silver brushes, shook out a purple brocaded dressing-gown, laid out a suit of clothes for the morrow, even selected a shirt and put the links in it.

Finally he wandered into the adjoining bathroom, took a hot bath, packed away at the bottom of the steamer trunk the clothes which he had been wearing, went to bed--and slept..