After Monsieur Thuran had squandered a few million dollars, he
discovered that the vocation was so entirely to his liking that
he would continue on down to Cape Town, where he suddenly decided
that he had pressing engagements that might detain him there for
some time.

Miss Strong had told him that she and her mother were to visit the
latter's brother there--they had not decided upon the duration of
their stay, and it would probably run into months.

She was delighted when she found that Monsieur Thuran was to be
there also.

"I hope that we shall be able to continue our acquaintance," she
said. "You must call upon mamma and me as soon as we are settled."

Monsieur Thuran was delighted at the prospect, and lost no time
in saying so. Mrs. Strong was not quite so favorably impressed by
him as her daughter.

"I do not know why I should distrust him," she said to Hazel one
day as they were discussing him. "He seems a perfect gentleman in
every respect, but sometimes there is something about his eyes--a
fleeting expression which I cannot describe, but which when I see
it gives me a very uncanny feeling."

The girl laughed. "You are a silly dear, mamma," she said.

"I suppose so, but I am sorry that we have not poor Mr. Caldwell