Write to me as soon as you arrive." Derrick rose to bid her good-bye; but she stayed him with a slight, hesitating gesture and held out the second packet.
"Take this," she said.

"It contains instructions for your conduct in--in certain events." "Sealed instructions," said Derrick, with a smile, as he noticed that the package was thus secured.
"Yes," she said.

"You will break the seals and read the enclosed instructions if, at any time, during your absence, you should be in any great difficulty or danger.

Do you think this is very strange--mysterious ?" she asked, her eyes fixed upon him with a half-apprehensive regard.
"I've not the least doubt you have good reasons for giving me this," said Derrick; "I will not open it unless, as you say, I am in a fix." "That is well," she said.

"You have good reason--a reason I cannot explain," she added hurriedly, and with some agitation, "for trusting me." "I'd trust you with my life," said Derrick, impelled to the burst of fervour by something in her manner and voice.
She held out her hand, and Derrick took it and pressed it; there was something so melting in the tenderness of her gaze that again he was impelled by a strange influence, and he bent and kissed the hand.