"I've mon no rigu of anything of tho
kind, sir. No one b . * been near him or had
■l*etch with him except only your nephew
User and myself."
“Four villains, with Berks at their head,
got the start of us by several Lours, it
was Warr who told me."
"Wh.tt Bill Warr says Is straight, nnd
what Jo** Berks does Is crooked. Who were
the others, sir?"
"Bed Ike Fighting Yussef and Chris Mc-
Carthy."
"A p:< tty gang, too! Well, sir, the lad | 3
aafe, but it would be as well perhaps, for
one or other ot us to stay In his room
with him. For my own part, as long as he's
my charge 1 nt never very far away.”
“It's a pity to w:ik*‘ him.”
"Ho can h;:r*lly be asl**ep with oil this
racket in the house. This way, sir, and
down the passage.”
We pa *1 along the lew-roofed devious
corridors of tin* old-fashioned ina to the
back of the house.
"This is my room, sir,” said Bricher,
nodding to a door upon the right. “This
one upon the left Is his.” He threw il open
.* s he :,o!-:*- •'Here's Sir Charles Tri g-Ills
com** to see you, Jim," said li ■*, and th*-n,
“Go-** Lori wliat is flic meaning of this?”
1 he liitii- chamber lay l***fore us, brightly
Illuminated by a brass lamp which stood
upon tho table. Tho bed clothes had not
P.-en turned *l**wti, but there was an Indon
tation upon tho cotiut-'r; anc which showed
that some one had lain there. Cine hall
of tho lattice window w.-t.t rwinging, on
it bii'ge. and a clod* cap. ly'n*; itpon the
t»*'..li . w is the only s'p.n of the occupant.
