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What made you suspicious?" "One very important incident Weirmarsh came in with another man, and, in passing, nodded to Granier. That set me thinking." "But you do not know of any actual dealings with the doctor?" "I know of none," replied Walter. "Still, I'm very sick that, after all my pains, they should have escaped to Paris so suddenly." "Never mind," said Trendall.

To her stepfather she had, times without number, expressed fear and horror of the sharp-eyed doctor, but Sir Hugh had only laughed at her fears and dismissed them as ridiculous. Dr. Weirmarsh was the general's friend. Enid knew that there was some close association between the pair, but of its nature she was in complete ignorance.

I assure you that to remain in London will be for the best," he said, while she switched on the shaded electric lights, which shed a soft glow over the handsome room that apartment, the costly furniture of which had been purchased out of the money secretly supplied by Weirmarsh. "But I can't see why I should remain," she protested, facing him again.

"I think not," she laughed in reply. "And yet the truth is a hard and bitter one." "Remain firm and determined to be mistress of your own actions," he urged, "and in the meantime I will cultivate the doctor's acquaintance and endeavour to investigate the cause of this remarkable influence of his." Why did Doctor Weirmarsh possess such power over Sir Hugh? he wondered.

I shall now reveal the truth concerning your stepfather, and you and your family will be held up to opprobrium throughout the whole length and breadth of your land." Enid did not reply. She was pale as death, her face downcast, her lips white as marble. She knew, alas! that Weirmarsh, now that he was cornered, would not spare her. There was a pause a very painful pause.

Therefore, there will be absolutely no risk," the doctor assured him. The other, however, was no fool, and was still unconvinced. He knew well that to carry out the request made by Weirmarsh involved considerable risk. The doctor spoke quietly, but very firmly. In his demands he was always inexorable. He had already hinted at the disaster which might fall upon Sir Hugh if he refused to obey.

Had he been able to glance inside that shabby little back room he would have witnessed a strange scene Sir Hugh, the gallant old soldier, crushed and humiliated by the man who practised medicine, and who called himself Weirmarsh. "I had only just come in from the theatre when you telephoned me," Sir Hugh said sharply on entering.

The doctor looked at him with a strange expression in those cold, keen eyes of his and smiled, "I fear, Sir Hugh, that if you attempt to carry out such a decision you will find insuperable difficulties," he said quietly. "I desire no good advice from you, Weirmarsh," the old general snapped. "I fully realise my position.

That ugly revelations very ugly ones might result was quite within the range of possibility, therefore Weirmarsh, whose craft and cunning were amazing, intended to cover his own retreat behind the back of the very man whom he had denounced to Enid Orlebar. He sat in silence, his finger-tips again joined, gazing upon the man who had swallowed that very alluring bait he had once placed before him.

"You got out of the hands of the Jews, and ever since that day you haven't had five minutes' worry over your finances. I promised you I would provide you with an ample income, and " "And you've done so, Weirmarsh," cried the old general; "an income far greater than I expected. Yet what do I deserve?"