To put it in the most brutally material form, it is quite true that I have kidnapped you two ladies and taken you beyond the reach of earthly law.

But there is another law, one which would bind a gentleman even if he were beyond the limits of the Solar System, and so if you wish to be landed either in Washington or New York it shall be done.

You shall be put down within a carriage drive of your own residence, or of Mr.Russell Rennick's.

I will myself see you to his door, and there we may say goodbye, and I will take my trip through the Solar System alone." There was another pause after this, a pause pregnant with the fate of two lives.

They looked at each other--Mrs.Van Stuyler at Zaidie, Zaidie at Lord Redgrave, and he at Mrs.Van Stuyler again.