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"It is unnecessary for you to ask me that, sir," I answered quietly. "Colonel Ray will doubtless have some explanation. He is a man of vigorous temper, and I fancy that Lord Blenavon was not quite himself." The Duke rose to his feet. "If you are ready, Angela," he said, "we will not detain Mr. Ducaine further." "You will allow me to walk with you to the house, sir," I begged. He shook his head.
I had a question to ask." "And you have met Lord Blenavon? What do you think of him?" "We were at Magdalen together for a term," I answered. "He was good enough to remember me." Ray smiled, but he did not speak another word to me all the breakfast-time. Once I made a remark to him, and his reply was curt, almost rude.
Outside Braster Grange an attack was made upon me, evidently with the intention of securing these. I escaped, with the assistance of Colonel Ray, who had come down from London by the same train unknown to me." "Well?" "The attack was made from the grounds of Braster Grange. It seems that Lord Blenavon spent the night there.
His brows were knitted into a heavy frown, and he was evidently following my story with close attention. But exactly where I was going to lead, he seemed to have no idea. "The tenant of Braster Grange," I continued, "is a Mrs. Smith-Lessing, whom Colonel Ray has told me is a servant of the French secret police. I am afraid that Lord Blenavon has been a good deal under her influence."
"Can you tell me if Lord Blenavon is there?" Ray asked. The doctor hesitated. "It was hinted to me, Colonel Ray," he said, "that my visit to the Grange was not to be spoken of. You will understand, of course, that the etiquette of our profession " "Quite right," Ray interrupted.
"I have not heard a word from Colonel Ray," she said. "It terrifies me to think that he may have told my father about Blenavon." "You must insist upon it that he does not," I declared. "Your brother has left England, has he not?" "He is at Ostend." "Then Colonel Ray will keep his word," I assured her. "Besides, you have written to him, have you not?" "I have written," she answered.
I am compelled to take the evidence of my eyes and ears as final." Blenavon sucked at his cigarette fiercely for a minute, threw it away, and commenced to roll another. "It's all rot!" he exclaimed. "Malors wouldn't do a mean action, and, besides, what on earth has he to gain? He is a fanatical Royalist. He is not even on speaking terms with the Government of France to-day."
"I am to wish you happiness, am I not?" She looked up at me in quick surprise. "Did Blenavon tell you " "That you had promised to marry Colonel Mostyn Ray. Yes." "That is very strange," she said thoughtfully. "Blenavon is not as a rule needlessly communicative, and at present it is almost a secret." "Nevertheless," I said, turning slowly towards her, "I presume that it is true."
"The more reason why Lord Blenavon should go," I said. "He is set between dangerous influences here. Lady Angela, can you tell me where your brother was last night?" "How should I?" she answered slowly. "He tells me nothing." "He was not at home?" "He dined at home. I think that he went out afterwards." I nodded.
I believe that there was some trouble at the Foreign Office about it." "It is very interesting," I repeated. "Blenavon was very foolish," she declared. "It was obviously a most indiscreet friendship for him, and Paris was his first appointment. But I must go and speak to some of these people." She rose and left me a little abruptly.
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