Both these documents lay securely in the little safe that David had had fitted into the wall of his sitting-room in Fig Tree Court.

Also David had opened an account in his own name after he got back from Wales, at the Temple Bar Branch of the C.&.

C.Bank.Into this he now paid the cheque for twenty-five pounds which his father had sent as pocket money.
A few days afterwards, Vivie Warren reappeared--in spirit--and indited a letter to Frank Gardner's agents in Cape Town.

She was careful to give no address at the head of the letter and to post it at Victoria Station.

In it she said she was starting on a tour abroad, but asked him to do what he could to trace the boy who had lain so grievously ill in the hospital at Colesberg.