We got the most pathetic letter from him the second day, saying there was no one but the head waiter to talk to, nothing but an india-rubber tree to look at, and if we didn't come immediately, he'd do the Dolomites without us.

Then finally, just as we were on the point of leaving, he sent a telegram saying: "Don't come.

Am climbing mountains.

Stay there till you hear from me." But being already packed, we came, and this is what we find----' She waved her hand over the empty grove.
'It serves you right; you shouldn't deceive people.' 'It was for Jerry's good--and yours too.

But what shall we do?
He doesn't know we're here and he has left no address.' 'Come out to the villa and visit us till he comes to search for you.' Constance could hear her aunt delivering the same invitation to Mrs.
Eustace, and she perforce repeated it, though with the inward hope that it would be declined.