NEARING THE END There were, as I said, eight days in which to find Kaffar and bring him to London, counting the day on which we started our journey.

It was Wednesday; by the following Wednesday, at midnight, I must prove to Gertrude that Voltaire was a villain and a liar.

It should be done easily.

It was but little more than a thirty hours' ride to Turin--that is, providing everything went smoothly.

To put it at the outside, it was only a forty-eight hours' journey, allowing time for a sleep on the way.
Thus four days would suffice for travelling, and I should have more than three days in which to find Kaffar.