Take care that when you go home in the end, there shall be some one waiting in the room and the lamp lit against your coming.'" Sylvia pressed against her side the hand which he had slipped through her arm.
"But he did more than give advice," Chayne continued, "for as he went away to his home in the little village of Les Praz-Conduits, just across the fields, he passed Couttet's Hotel and saw you under the lamp talking to a guide he knew.

You were making your arrangements to ascend the Charmoz.

But he dissuaded you." "Yes." "He convinced you that your first mountain should be the Aiguille d'Argentiere.

He gave you no doubt many reasons, but not the real one which he had in his thoughts." Sylvia looked at Chayne in surprise.
"He sent you to the Aiguille d'Argentiere, because he knew that so you and I would meet at the Pavilion de Lognan." "But he had never spoken to me until that night," exclaimed Sylvia.
"Yet he had noticed you.

When I went up to fetch down my friend Lattery, you were standing on the hotel step.