But it was in Stella Ballantyne's handwriting and the post-mark was Kurrachee.

That she did not wish to see him he could quite understand; Kurrachee was a port from which ships sailed to many destinations; he could hardly set out in a blind search for her across the world.

So here, it seemed, was that chapter closed.

He took the next steamer westwards from Bombay, landed at Brindisi and went back to his work in the Law Courts and in Parliament..