" How often did the idea
occur to her, throughout the terrible length of that day, that "he"
might come to her? But he came not. "So much the better," she said to
herself. "Were he to come, I would not see him."
Late in the evening, when the little lamp in the room had been already
burning for some hour or two, she called Souchey to her. "Take this
note," she said, "to Anton Trendellsohn."
"What! to-night?" said Souchey, trembling.
"Yes, to-night. It is right that he should know that the house is now
his own, to do what he will with it."
Then Souchey took the note, which was as follows:
My father is dead, and the house will be empty to-morrow.
You may come and take your property without fear that you
will be troubled by NINA BALATKA.
CHAPTER XV
When Souchey left the room with the note, Nina went to the door and
listened. She heard him turn the lock below, and heard his step out
in the courtyard, and listened till she knew that he was crossing the
square.
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