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As I moved away from the back of the church, and passed some of the dismantled cottages in search of a person who might direct me to the clerk, I saw two men saunter out after me from behind a wall. The tallest of the two a stout muscular man in the dress of a gamekeeper was a stranger to me. The other was one of the men who had followed me in London on the day when I left Mr. Kyrle's office.
I could only resolve to be cautious on leaving Chancery Lane, and not to go straight home again under any circumstances whatever. After waiting a few minutes I was shown into Mr. Kyrle's private room. A better man for my purpose could hardly have been found.
His reply was insolent enough to have answered the purpose, if I had been less determined to control myself. It was exactly as I suspected. The recognition of me when I left Mr. Kyrle's office had been evidently communicated to Sir Percival Glyde, and the man in black had been sent to the Park in anticipation of my making inquiries at the house or in the neighbourhood.
Kyrle's amazement, or of the terms in which he expressed his opinion of my conduct from the first stage of the investigation to the last. It is only necessary to mention that he at once decided on accompanying us to Cumberland. We started the next morning by the early train. Laura, Marian, Mr. Kyrle, and myself in one carriage, and John Owen, with a clerk from Mr.
"I will keep this letter, Marian, to help my memory when the time comes." She looked at me attentively as I put the letter away in my pocket-book. "When the time comes?" she repeated. "Can you speak of the future as if you were certain of it? certain after what you have heard in Mr. Kyrle's office, after what has happened to you to-day?" "I don't count the time from to-day, Marian.
Kyrle's office, occupying places in another. On reaching the Limmeridge station we went first to the farmhouse at Todd's Corner. It was my firm determination that Laura should not enter her uncle's house till she appeared there publicly recognised as his niece. I left Marian to settle the question of accommodation with Mrs.
"I can think of no means of ascertaining the date at present," I said, "because I can think of no persons who are sure to know it, but Count Fosco and Sir Percival Glyde." Mr. Kyrle's calmly attentive face relaxed, for the first time, into a smile. "With your opinion of the conduct of those two gentlemen," he said, "you don't expect help in that quarter, I presume?
With this written evidence about me, and with the coachman's answers fresh in my memory, I next turned my steps, for the first time since the beginning of all my inquiries, in the direction of Mr. Kyrle's office. One of my objects in paying him this second visit was, necessarily, to tell him what I had done.
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