Norgate, during his month's stay in Berlin, had already adopted regular habits.

On the following morning he was called at eight o'clock and rode for two hours in the fashionable precincts of the city.

The latter portion of the time he spent looking in vain for a familiar figure in a green riding-habit.

The Baroness, however, did not appear.

At ten o'clock Norgate returned to the Embassy, bathed and breakfasted, and a little after eleven made his way round to the business quarters.