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Sir Thomas Button had explored Baffin's Land, Nelson River, and the Button Islands in 1612; Munck, the Dane, had found the mouth of the Churchill River in 1619, James and Fox had explored the inland sea in 1631; Shapley had brought a ship up from Boston in 1640; and Bourdon, the Frenchman, had gone up to the straits in 1656-1657.
"Miss Ranscomb knows my whereabouts and has written to me in my real name and addressed the letter to Shapley." "Well, what of that?" he asked. "I told her." "She tells me that my present hiding-place is known!" "Not known to the police? Impossible!" gasped the black-gloved man. "I take it that such is a fact." "Why, Molly is there!" cried the man Howell.
It did not simplify the situation to have Mite Shapley come in during the evening and run upstairs, uninvited, to sit on the foot of her bed and chatter. Rose had closed her blinds and lay in the dark, pleading a headache. Mite was in high feather. She had met Claude Merrill going to the station that afternoon.
He was looking at her now from a distance, for she and Mite Shapley were assisting Jed Towle to pile up the tin plates and tie the tin dippers together.
Later, he strolled along the road over which he knew Dorise must come. But all to no avail. There was no sign of her. Until six o'clock he waited, when, in blank despair, he mounted beside Mead again and drove back to Shapley Manor. It was curious that Dorise had not come to meet him, but he attributed it to The Sparrow's inability to convey a message to her.
He was looking at her now from a distance, for she and Mite Shapley were assisting Jed Towle to pile up the tin plates and tie the tin dippers together.
"I don't know who she was. She wouldn't give her name," Louise replied. "She asked if we were Shapley, and I replied. Then she asked for you. I told her that you were out in the car and asked her name. But she said it didn't matter at all, and rang off." "I wonder who she was?" remarked Hugh, much puzzled and, at the same time, greatly alarmed. He scented danger.
Sherrard, however, little dreamed how great was Dorise's love for Hugh, and how deeply she regretted having written that hasty letter to Shapley. Yet one of Hugh's friends had met him in Madrid in company with what was described as a pretty young French girl! What was the secret of it all? Was Hugh really guilty of the attempt upon the notorious Mademoiselle?
She might have gone out of town with her mother, he thought. Or, perhaps, at the last moment, she had been unable to get away. On his return to Shapley he found Louise and Mrs. Bond sitting together in the charming, old-world drawing-room. A log fire was burning brightly.
"Surely you don't suspect that it was this Mr. Howell who gave me away to Scotland Yard!" exclaimed Hugh, surprised, but at the same time recollecting that The Sparrow had been alarmed at the detective's visit to Dorise. He knew that Benton and Mrs. Bond had suddenly disappeared from Shapley, but the reason he could only guess.
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