‘How can I forget her?’ he asked himself and felt that she would haunt him for the rest of his life.
*
When he came down to breakfast, he sent for Monsieur Tellier and instructed him that a notice should be sent to the French newspapers with instructions to telegraph the news to London. This was the moment he was waiting for and was the rapier point of his revenge.
The notice had been worded very carefully.
His Grace the Duke of Ravenstock was married quietly in Paris yesterday. The Duke and Duchess, after a few days in the French capital, will proceed on their honeymoon to Nice in the South of France. The Duke had written it down carefully in his own hand, then read the announcement and re-read it to be quite certain it was exactly what he required.
He only wished he could see and he
