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The cable dispatched to Mayne, had been so urgent and alarming, that he half expected to hear bad news when the mail steamer called at Port Said, -- however, neither cable nor letter awaited him. Arriving in London early one May morning, he drove up to his mother's house in Charles Street, -- intending to ask for news and a meal. The door was opened by a somewhat dishevelled footman, who informed him that "her ladyship was out of town."
"But was I not expected?" inquired the caller, glancing at his luggage-laden taxi, "I am Captain Mayne."