The Professor and his protegee spent the whole of that July wandering in Brittany--going from one old-world spot to another.

There had not been much opposition raised by Mr.and Mrs.Anderton to Halcyone's accompanying her old master.

They themselves were going to Scotland, and there Mabel had decided she would no longer be kept in the schoolroom, and intended to come forward as a grown-up girl assisting in the hospitalities of her father's shooting lodge.

And Mrs.Anderton, knowing her temper, thought a rival of any sort might make difficulties.

So, as far as they were concerned, Halcyone might start at once.