I am going out, but I do not wish her disturbed.

I will write a note of explanation.

Be so good as to cause it to be given to her when she wakes.' She was calm then, sir; she sat down and wrote, and sealed the note and gave it to me.

Then she caught up her hat, which lay on the table, and her gloves; and then, sir, she walked out of the hotel." "Which way did she go ?" "She went, sir, as if she were making for the footpath down the hill.

An hour or more passed, and then madame's bell rang.