"It was from there that we expected news from him.

I cannot see what possible reason he had for changing his plans.

There was no mystery about his life in London.

It was one splendid record of self-denial and devotion to what he thought his duty." "From what he told me," his vis-a-vis continued, handing again his cigarette-case, and looking steadily into the fire, "he seems to have left England with the secret determination never to return.

But why I do not know.