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The close observer would, however, detect that his clothes, shabby though they were, were of foreign cut, and that his greeting was of that demonstrative character that betrayed his foreign birth. "Well, my dear Krail," exclaimed Flockart, after they had shaken hands and stood together leaning upon the sea-wall, "you got my wire in Huntingdon?
Flockart stared hard at the man at his side, and, laughing outright, said, "Well, that's the best joke I've heard to-day. You, of all men, to be taken in by a mere superstition." "But, my dear friend, I heard them," said Krail. "I swear I actually heard them!
She obeyed, and in a few moments explained the various documents it contained. "Then let the man go," her father said. "But, Sir Henry," cried Hamilton, "I object to this! Krail is down in the village forming a plot to make you pay for the return of those papers. He arrived from London by the same train as this man. If we allow him to leave he will inform his accomplice, and both will escape."
He was in different garb, and acting a very different part. But his face was still the same a countenance which it was impossible to forget. He was watching the changing expression upon the girl's face. Would that he could read the secret hidden behind those wonderful eyes! He had, quite unexpectedly, discovered a mysterious circumstance. Why should Krail meet her by accident at that lonely spot?
To Hamilton it was evident that the man Krail, now smartly dressed in country tweeds, was telling the girl something which surprised her. He was speaking quickly, making involuntary gestures which betrayed his foreign birth, while she stood pale, surprised, and yet defiant. The Baron's secretary was not near enough to overhear their words.
"Well," he said, "if you've been bold enough to do this in face of the gossip, then you're a much cleverer man than ever I took you to be." For answer, Flockart took some letters from his breast-pocket, selected one written in a foreign hand, and gave it to Krail to read.
Because, with Lady Heyburn's connivance, you with your cunning accomplice Krail were endeavouring to discover Sir Henry's business secrets in order, first, to operate upon the valuable financial knowledge you would thus gain, and so make a big coup; and, secondly, when you had done this, it was your intention to expose the methods of Sir Henry and his friends.
"She'll stand between us and a court of assize if that woman acts the fool!" declared the shabby stranger, who moved so rapidly and whose vigilance seemed unequalled. "If we go, she shall go also," Flockart declared in a threatening voice. "But you must prevent such a contretemps," Krail urged. "Ah, it's all very well to talk like that!
"Our chief peril is still the one which has faced us all along," went on the man in the grey hat "the peril that the girl may tell about that awkward affair at Chantilly." "She dare not," Flockart assured him quickly. Krail shook his head dubiously. "She's leading a lonely life. Her heart is broken, and she believes herself, as every other young girl does, to be without a future.
Murie had his back to the door, the long window on the opposite side of the room being closed. "It was a promise of Sir Henry's," declared the unhappy adventurer. "Which will be observed when Krail has been brought face to face with Sir Henry," answered Murie, at the same time calling Hill and one of the gardeners who chanced to be working on the lawn outside.
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