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And that brings me to the very point, my dear ladies and my dear young gentleman, that I have come specially to Scarhaven this morning to discuss. It's a very, very serious matter indeed," he went on as he untied his packet of papers, "and I fear that it's only the beginning of something more serious. Come round me here at this table, all of you, if you please."
"I am under orders," said Andrius, with another smile. "Whose orders?" persisted Vickers. "Look here it's no use trying to burke facts. Who's on board this vessel? You know what I mean. Is the man who calls himself Squire of Scarhaven here?" Andrius shook his head quietly and gave his questioner a shrewd glance. "Mr. Vickers," he said meaningly, "I know you! You are a lawyer though a young one.
It was ten o'clock when he arrived there, and as he knew that the last train to Scarhaven left at half-past-nine he hurried to get a fast motor-car that would take him over the last twenty miles of his journey.
I got a wire from Miss Greyle late this evening, asking me to meet you here when the London train got in and to go on to Scarhaven with you at once. She added the words urgent business so " "Then in heaven's name, let's be off!" exclaimed Copplestone. "It'll take us a good hour and a quarter as it is.
Oh, yes! of course I knew him as soon as he walked in, and I had a bit of chat with him before he went out, and he remarked that though he'd been coming into these parts for some years, he'd never been to Scarhaven before usually, he said, he'd gone inland of a Sunday, amongst the hills. Oh, yes, he was here he had lunch here." "We're seeking him," said Stafford, going directly to the question.
It wound through groves of fir and pine until it came out on a plateau, in the midst of which, surrounded by a high irregular wall, towered at the angles and buttressed all along its length, stood Scarhaven Keep. And there, at the head of a path which evidently led up from the big house, stood Chatfield, angry and threatening.
"What are you after, Chatfield?" he asked at length. "Something, of course. You say you want to come to terms with Miss Greyle. That, of course, is because you know very well that Miss Greyle is the legal owner of Scarhaven, and that " Chatfield waved his pipe. "I don't!" he answered, with what seemed genuine eagerness. "I don't know naught of the sort. I tell you, Mr.
When they'd gone Swallow got hold of another taxi, and told its driver to take him to Scarhaven, too. Off they went in a pitch-black night, I'm told " "We know that!" said Vickers with a glance at Copplestone. "We motored from Norcaster just about the same time."
But Copplestone had impressed upon his driver that he must get to Scarhaven as quickly as possible, and he and his companion were both so full of their purpose that they paid no heed to the perpetual danger which they ran as the car tore round propections and down deep cuts at a speed which at other times they would have considered suicidal.
He had wired to Audrey from Peterborough, telling her that he was on his way and should motor out from Norcaster, and when he had found a car to his liking he ordered its driver to go straight to Mrs. Greyle's cottage, close by Scarhaven church.
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