He pondered the matter carefully till the evening, and by that time he had a plan all ready in his head.
For a whole week after this, nothing was to be seen of Vamhidy.

Count Kengyelesy sought him everywhere and could find him nowhere.

Every day he asked his countess what she had done with the young man.
Ten days after the first _soiree_ the date for another had been fixed.
Szilard did not appear even at this.

Kengyelesy hunted for him from pillar to post, but could not discover what had become of him.

Nobody had heard anything of him.
"He has poisoned himself," said Kengyelesy at last to a group of his sporting friends.