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"But it is in your interests, Enid." "In my interests?" she echoed. "Why?" "Regarding the secret relations between your stepfather and Doctor Weirmarsh," he answered. "That same question we've discussed before," she said. "The doctor is attending to his practice in Pimlico; he does not concern us here." "I fear that he does," was Fetherston's quiet response.
"I know my father better than you do, Pat," said I, for the first time in my life asserting a little determination with him. "Home I will not go this day." So it was settled; and we were bending our steps in the direction of Doolan's house, through Lord Fetherston's property, when another pheasant got up before me. My gun was loaded, and I could not resist the temptation to fire.
Enid tore open the letter eagerly and found the following words, written hurriedly in pencil in Walter Fetherston's well-known scrawling hand for a novelist's handwriting is never of the best: "Make excuse and induce your father to leave Conflans-Jarny at once for Metz, travelling by Belgium for London. Accompany him.
You have placed yourself and me in Lord Fetherston's power. He insists on it, that you shall forthwith be sent to sea; and on that condition he promises to overlook all that has occurred. He did not even speak harshly of you; and I am fain to believe that what he has decided is for the best.
Walter held up a hurricane lantern which he had found and lit, when its dim, uncertain light fell upon the two prisoners in the crowd. Behind stood Summers, while before him, to Fetherston's utter amazement, showed Enid Orlebar, pale and terrified, and the grey, sinister face of Doctor Weirmarsh.
She had grasped Fetherston's hand convulsively, but at Weirmarsh's threat she had released her hold and was standing in the hall, pale, rigid and staring. "Summers," exclaimed Fetherston, turning to his companion, "you know this person, eh?" "Yes, sir, I should rather think I do," replied the man, with a grin. "Well, detain him for the present, and take your instructions from London."
He felt that he had seen it somewhere, but whether in a photograph in his big album down at Idsworth or in the flesh he could not decide. Yet from that moment he had hardly lost sight of them. With that astuteness which was Fetherston's chief characteristic, he had watched vigilantly and patiently, establishing the fact that the pair were in England for some sinister purpose.
His name frequently appeared among the invited guests of Cabinet Ministers, and he received cards for many official functions, but the actual manner in which he rendered assistance to the Government was always kept a most profound secret. More than once Sir Hugh had mentioned the matter over the dining-table, expressing wonder as to Fetherston's real position.
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