But her father was already gone.

She heard his step upon the stairs.
Chayne, however, followed her father from the room and caught him up as he was leaving the hotel.
"I want to say," he began with some difficulty, "that, if you are pressed at all for money--" Garratt Skinner stopped him.

He pulled some sovereigns out of one pocket and some banknotes out of another.
"You see, I have enough to go on with.

In fact--" and he looked northward toward the mountains.

Dimly they could be seen under the sickle of a new moon.