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244 "No, those documents must be letters of mine asking for money, and receipts signed when I got it. There was one rather embarrassing paper I had to sign, which was my promise that I'd kidnap you on the yacht."

"I don't suppose that can do any harm., Jack, unless I put the law in motion, which I will not. But Mackeller seemed to think it was serious, and asked me to warn you that it was better to remain out of England for a while."

"Then you've been in communication with him by wireless telegraphy?"

"Precisely. You can give the Professor what despatches you want sent to Mackeller, and he'll forward them. You'd better keep in touch with him, and learn what is going on, and I'd take his advice if I were you. If he says make for the Morocco coast instead of Cadiz, you'd better do it."

"All right," replied the Honourable John.

Stranleigh reached Paris at 6.5 that evening, and at eight o'clock was enjoying a dinner of his own selection at his favourite restaurant. In the interval he had read the English morning papers of that day. They were all unanimous in awarding great praise to the police for promptness and efficiency in their successful action against the Honduras swindle, and one journal, whose main stock-in-trade was exposure of the aristocracy, and the sins of society, drew a touching picture of that butterfly