"If my want of experience keeps
me back in a theater, I can afford to wait till the stage can afford to
pay me."
Captain Wragge mentally appraised the rings, bracelets, and necklaces,
the silks, satins, and laces of the daughter of a gentleman of fortune,
at--say, a third of their real value. In a moment more, the Fifty Pounds
Reward suddenly sank again to the lowest depths in the deep estimation
of this judicious man.
"Just so," he said, in his most business-like manner. "There is not the
least fear, my dear girl, of your being kept back in a theater, if you
possess present resources, and if you profit by my assistance."
"I must accept more assistance than you have already offered--or none,"
said Magdalen. "I have more serious difficulties before me than the
difficulty of leaving York, and the difficulty of finding my way to the
stage."
"You don't say so! I am all attention; pray explain yourself!"
She considered her next words carefully before they passed her lips.
"There are certain inquiries," she said, "which I am interested in
making. If I undertook them myself, I should excite the suspicion of the
person inquired after, and should learn little or nothing of what I wish
to know.
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