I shall miss my train. Here is a present for you, of which I direct
you to read a chapter every day," and he produced out of a brown paper
parcel a large French Bible. "It will both do you good and improve
your knowledge of the French tongue. I especially commend your
attention to certain verses in Proverbs dealing with the dangers on
which I have touched, that I have marked with a blue pencil. Do you
hear?"

"Yes, Father. Solomon wrote Proverbs, didn't he?"

"It is believed so and his wide--experience--gives a special value to
his counsel. You will write to me once a week, and when you have had
your dinner get to bed at once. On no account are you to go out into
the streets. Goodbye."

Then he planted a frosty kiss upon Godfrey's brow and departed,
leaving that youth full of reflections, but to tell the truth,
somewhat relieved.

Shortly afterwards Godfrey descended to the coffee-room and ate his
dinner. Here it was that the universal temptress against whom he had
been warned so urgently, put in a first appearance in the person of a
pleasant and elderly lady who was seated alongside of him. Noting this
good-looking and lonely lad, she began to talk to him, and being a
woman of the world, soon knew all about him, his name, who he was,
whither he was going, etc. When she found out that it was to Lucerne,
or rather its immediate neighbourhood, she grew quite interested,
since, as it happened, she--her name was Miss Ogilvy--had a house
there where she was accustomed to spend most of the year. Indeed, she
was returning by the same train that Godfrey was to take on the