Chapter 14 AN ENTICING RENDEZVOUS

The failure of Colonel Moore to keep promptly his appointment with Mlle. d'Essoldé to meet her that morning in the japonica walk was due to a letter that had come to him in the early post, and which had sent him, without a moment's delay, straight to Dornlitz and Headquarters; nor did he even stop to telephone the Archduke, but left it for one of t