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"What about these?" he asked, with biting scorn. "Tell the Duke and Lord Cheisford where I found them! Let us hear your glib young tongue telling the truth for once, sir." Both the Duke and Lord Chelsford were obviously startled. Ray had always been my friend and upholder. He spoke now with very apparent enmity. "Perhaps you would prefer to tell the story yourself," I answered.
All danger from that source will now be at an end, for in an hour's time the Prince will be under the surveillance of detectives for the remainder of his stay in England." I breathed a sigh of relief. "I am to go back to Braster, then?" I asked. "To-night, if possible," Lord Chelsford answered. "Go on living as you have been living. And, listen!
Lord Cheisford carefully placed the papers which he had been reading in his breast-pocket. Ray leaned over towards him. "Lord Chelsford," he said, "and you, Duke, you took this young man on trust, and I pledged my word for him. Like many a better man, I made a mistake. For all that we know he has secret copies of all the work he has done for us, ready to dispose of.
More than ever, perhaps, I realized at that moment in the presence of these men the strangeness of the events which for a short space of time, at any rate, had brought me into association with persons and happenings of such importance. Lord Chelsford seated himself at the open desk opposite to the Duke. As was his custom, he wasted no time in preliminaries.
"Nevertheless," Lord Chelsford continued, eyeing me closely, "in your own mind you know very well who that person was. You are a bad liar, Ducaine. There was something about the hand which told you the truth a ring, perhaps. At any rate, something." "I had no time to feel for such things, sir," I answered.
She did not answer me with any word at all, but with a sudden little forward movement of both her hands, and I saw that her eyes were swimming in tears. Yet they shone into mine like stars, and I saw heaven there. "I am sorry," Lord Chelsford said, gravely interposing, "but Lady Chelsford will be waiting for you, Angela.
"Give them to you?" I answered scornfully. "Are you serious?" "Very serious, Guy. Do you not see that the sooner it is all over the better the safer up there?" She pointed towards the house. I could have struck the white fingers with their loathsome meaning. "I shall take this packet to Lord Chelsford," I said. "I am down here as a spy a spy upon spies.
"My story is as true as God's Word," I declared. "I am inclined to believe in it myself, Mr. Ducaine," said Lord Chelsford. "There are indications of a strong revival of Royalist sentiment amongst the French people, and it is very possible that the Prince of Malors may wish to ingratiate himself by any means with the French army.
I considered the matter, and I came to the conclusion that he was mistaken. I was sure of it then. I am equally sure of it now." "Tell us, Mr. Ducaine," Lord Chelsford said, "what your reasons were for making such a statement." I took a piece of red tape and a newspaper from the table before which I stood. I folded up the newspaper and tied the tape around it.
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