"I have, sir," said Nolan.

"Then get off, and don't lose sight of those people again."

Carlton attended to several matters of business, and then
lunched with Mrs. Downs and her niece. He had grown to like
them very much, and was sorry to lose sight of them, but
consoled himself by thinking he would see them a few days at
least in Paris. He judged that he would be there for some
time, as he did not think the Princess Aline and her sisters
would pass through that city without stopping to visit the
shops on the Rue de la Paix.

"All women are not princesses," he argued, "but all princesses
are women."

"We will be in Paris on Wednesday," Mrs. Downs told him. "The
Orient Express leaves there twice a week, on Mondays and
Thursdays, and we have taken an apartment for next Thursday,
and will go right on to Constantinople."

"But I thought you said you had to buy a lot of clothes
there?" Carlton expostulated.

Mrs. Downs said that they would do that on their way home.

Nolan met Carlton at the station, and told him that he had
followed the Hohenwalds to the Hotel Meurice. "There is the
Duke, sir, and the three Princesses," Nolan said, "and there