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Then, speaking of the labour unrest, Trendall pronounced his opinion as follows: "The whole situation would be ludicrous were it not urged so persistently as to be a menace not so much in this country, where we know too well the temperaments of its sponsors, but abroad, where public opinion, imperfectly instructed, may imagine it represents a serious national feeling.
He knows the whole story, and has been paid to keep a still tongue." "There I entirely agree with you," Trendall declared quickly; while at that moment the secretary returned with a slip of paper attached to the query which his chief had written.
"I know something of the scoundrels," remarked the old general, "because well, because, as I have confessed to Mr. Trendall, I yielded to temptation long ago and assisted them." "Whatever you have done, Sir Hugh, you have at least revealed to us the whole plot.
They mounted a police car, and were driven away down the road, while into a second car the tenant of The Yews and his Italian manservant were placed under escort, and also driven away. The station-fly, in which Bailey had driven from Southminster, conveyed away Fetherston, Trendall, Sir Hugh, and Enid, while Deacon, with two men, was left in charge of the house of secrets.
"If Bellairs was killed in so secret and scientific a manner that no trace was left, he was killed with a cunning and craftiness which betrays a jealous woman rather than a man. Besides, there are other facts we have gathered which go further to prove that Enid Orlebar is the actual culprit." "What are they? Tell me, Trendall."
Preferring the fresher air of Nice, he made his headquarters at the Hôtel Royal on the world-famed promenade, and came over to "Monte" daily by the rapide. Much had occurred since that autumn morning when he had stood with Herbert Trendall in the big room at New Scotland Yard, much that had puzzled him, much that had held him in fear lest the ghastly truth concerning Sir Hugh should be revealed.
His powers were little short of marvellous. He really seemed, as Trendall once put it, to scent the presence of criminals as pigs scent truffles. They suddenly left the Midland Hotel at St. Pancras, where they were staying, and crossed the Channel. But the same boat carried Walter Fetherston, who took infinite care not to obtrude himself upon their attention.
Truly, the gang had brought the art of forgery to perfection. "Well," said Trendall when they had finished, "this work of yours, Sir Hugh, certainly deserves the highest commendation. You have accomplished what we, with all our great organisation, utterly failed to do." "I have to-day tried to atone for my past offences," was the stern old man's hoarse reply.
Your stepfather does not know, of course, that this letter exists?" "No. I have kept it from everyone. I said that the summons I received from him I had destroyed." "In the circumstances I will ask you, Enid, to allow me to retain it," he said. "I want to show it to Trendall." "You may show it to Mr. Trendall, but I ask you, for the present, to make no further use of it," replied the girl.
Herbert Trendall hesitated, and for a moment twisted his moustache. He was a marvellously alert man, an unusually good linguist, and a cosmopolitan to his finger-tips. He had been a detective-sergeant in the T Division of Metropolitan Police for years before his appointment as director of that section.
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