Elodie! And he had not even noticed whether she had any eyes or not!

He looked again at the picture of the Austrian princess, lying face
upward upon the pile of letters. With disgust and loathing he swept the
offending portrait into a drawer, and summoning Vasili, began to make a
hasty toilet.

Vasili had never seen his young master in such bad humor. He was
unpardonably late for luncheon, but that would not disturb him, surely
not to such an extent as this!

He was greatly disturbed by something. There was no denying that.

He had found the voice, but--




CHAPTER VI


It was the next morning at the breakfast table that Paul Zalenska,
listlessly looking over the "Society Notes" in the _Times_, came upon
this significant notice:

"Mr. Gilbert Ledoux and daughter, Miss Opal Ledoux, of New Orleans,
accompanied by Henri, Count de Roannes, of Paris, have taken
passage on the Lusitania, which sails for New York on July 3rd."

It was _she_, of course!--who else could it be? Surely there could not