desires t nice to miss powers grand hotel have lost all at have learnt that d s returns here to morrow please send me one hundred pounds by him and save me from disgrace will await him at eleven o clock and four on the � � � � � i a chapter v five hours after the despatch of that captain de was rattling along the coast railway of the from to nice he was returning to england by way of but before turning he had engaged to perform on miss power s account a peculiar and somewhat disagreeable duty this was to place in s hands a hundred and twenty five which had been demanded from her by a message in s name the money was in his pocket � all in gold in a canvas bag tied up by s own hands which he had observed to tremble as she tied it as he leaned in the comer of the carriage he was thinking over the events of the morning which had in that liberal response at ten o clock before he had gone out from the hotel where he had taken up his quarters which was not the same as the one by and her friends he had been summoned to her presence in a manner so unexpected as to imply that something serious was in question on entering her room he had been by the absence of that independence usually apparent in her bearing towards him notwithstanding the with which he had hovered near her for the previous month and gradually by the position of his sister and the favour of s uncle in one of � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � dare and de io s letters and several of his established himself as an intimate member of the travelling party his entry however this time as always had had the effect of a and it was quite with her customary self possession that she had told him of the object of her message you think of returning to nice this afternoon she inquired de informed her that such was his intention and asked if he could do anything for her there then he remembered she had hesitated i have received a she said at length and so she allowed to escape her bit by bit the information that her whose name she seemed reluctant to utter had travelled from england to nice that week partly to consult her partly for a holiday trip that he had gone on to had there lost his money and got into difficulties and had appealed to her to help him out of them by the immediate advance of some ready cash it was a sad case an unexpected case she murmured with her eyes fixed on the window indeed she could not comprehend it to de there appeared nothing so very extraordinary in s apparent except in so far as that he should have applied to for relief from his instead of elsewhere it was a which a lover would have avoided at all costs he thought yet after a momentary reflection on his theory of s character it seemed sufficiently natural that he should lean persistently on if only with a view of keeping himself linked to her memory without thinking too profoundly of his i a own dignity that the esteem in which she had held up to that hour suffered a tremendous blow by his apparent scrape was clearly visible in her as she was and de while pitying thanked him in his mind for having given a rival an advantage which that rival s attentions had never been able to gain of themselves after a little further conversation she had said since you are to be my messenger i must tell you that i have decided to send the hundred pounds asked for and you will please to deliver them into no hands but his own a curious little blush crept over her face � perhaps it was a blush of shame at the conduct of the young man in whom she had of late been suspiciously interested � as she added he will be on the at four this afternoon and again at eleven to morrow can you meet him there certainly de replied she then asked him rather anxiously how he could account for mr knowing that he captain de was about to return to nice de informed her that he left word at the hotel of his intention to return which was quite true moreover there did not in his mind at the moment of speaking the faintest suspicion that had seen dare she then tied the bag and handed it to him leaving him with a serene and impenetrable bearing which he hoped for his own sake meant an acquired indifference to and his fortunes her sending the a sum of money which she could easily spare might be set down to natural generosity t � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � dare and t e i towards a man with whom she was for the improvement of her home she came back to him again for a moment could you possibly get there before four this afternoon she asked and he informed her that he could just do so by leaving almost at once which he was very willing to do though by so his time he would lose the projected morning with her and the rest at the i may tell you that i shall not go to the either if it is any consolation to you to know it was her reply i shall sit indoors and think of you on your journey the answer had admitted of two but her manner had inclined him to the that her reason 