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"It is a pity," said Gimblet, "that you do not speak to me more openly. I think it is highly probable, from what I know of the methods resorted to by Nihilists in general, that you may be in very grave danger. Indeed, I strongly advise you to report the whole matter to the police."
"I don't suppose my presence would appear worth commenting upon to anyone but yourself or Lord Ashiel, unless Lady Ruth should mention it." "I don't think she will," said Juliet. "She said she could not speak to anyone to-day, and she and Mark have gone off together in his own boat. I said I would walk home." "Won't you drive with me?" Gimblet suggested.
Still Gimblet had a deep-rooted prejudice against holding out hopes he could not see a good chance of fulfilling, and he had so often been appealed to by distracted women to save their friend and "find the real murderer." "Will you not begin at the beginning?" he said at last.
The effect of artificiality was increased by a large piece of statuary representing a figure carved in stone and standing upon a high oblong pediment, which stood a little distance down the glen. Gimblet did not repress his feeling of astonishment. "What a strange place!" he exclaimed. "Who would have expected to find this lawn tucked away in the woods. Or is there a house somewhere at hand?"
By the by, what did Sir David Southern say about having been in the room while you were in bed? Did he admit it; and did he say why he moved the body?" "He said he'd not been near the place," replied Mark, looking more perplexed and worried than ever. "I can't understand it at all," he added. "Why should he deny it to me?" Gimblet opened a drawer in the bureau.
"Are you employed on the Inverashiel estate?" he asked civilly. "I'm Duncan McGregor, his lordship's head keeper," was the reply, given in the cold tones of one accosted by an intruder. Gimblet hastened to introduce himself and to explain his presence, and McGregor condescended to thaw.
"He said that the injuries to the heart were such that death must have been instantaneous, or practically so." "Did anything else come out?" "Nothing, except the evidence against poor old David, I'm sorry to say." "You haven't told me that yet," said Gimblet. "Go on from when the police arrived on the scene." "As soon as it was daylight we started off again on our search.
Gimblet was slightly put out at her inference that his plea of business was merely an excuse to dismiss her in order that he might go off and play golf. Heaven knew it was no affair of hers whether he played golf that day or not!
How was anyone to know that she had that morning made her way into the secret passage of the old tower, and watched through the slip of glass in the case of the clock what Julia Romaninov was doing in the library? But leaving Gimblet and Lady Ruth to organize a search for her, we will return to Juliet in her hiding-place and see what was the end of her adventure.
"I knew that. No, there seems no reason why Sir Arthur Byrne should not have told her about you if he knew she was your child. What is odd, is that he should not have known it." "He had promised his first wife not to make any inquiries, it seems," said Lord Ashiel. "Well, he is an uncommon kind of man if he kept that promise," Gimblet remarked.
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