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Again the portiere opened. "Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Van Rock Mr. Kennedy Jones Miss Trevor," announced Blakeman successively. Mrs. Thayor's fourth dinner party that week had begun. As the door closed at midnight upon the last guest, Margaret kissed her father and mother good-night and hurried to her room, leaving the two alone.
That not a word concerning these things had reached Thayor's ears was owing, so Holcomb told him, to the influence of the trapper and the Clown, who prevented the men from coming to him in open protest. In the meantime he Holcomb had been secretly engaged in ferreting out the proofs of a wholesale villainy at the bottom of which was Bergstein.
"I trust you will have a pleasant journey," returned Thayor and with a nod to Billy the two disappeared through the door of Thayor's den, before the man with the scrubby beard could finish his sentence. Bergstein tucked the envelope within the black portfolio and went down the steps to the buckboard waiting to take him out to the railroad. The boy Jimmy drove, Bergstein taking the back seat.
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