Another
disclosure, Captain Wragge, for your private ear! I sent you back
certain articles of costume when they had served the purpose for which I
took them to London. That purpose was to find my way to Noel Vanstone
in disguise, and to judge for myself of Mrs. Lecount and her master. I
gained my object; and I tell you again, I know the two people in that
house yonder whom we have now to deal with better than you do."
Captain Wragge expressed the profound astonishment, and asked the
innocent questions appropriate to the mental condition of a person taken
completely by surprise.
"Well," he resumed, when Magdalen had briefly answered him, "and what is
the result on your own mind? There must be a result, or we should not be
here. You see your way? Of course, my dear girl, you see your way?"
"Yes," she said, quickly. "I see my way."
The captain drew a little nearer to her, with eager curiosity expressed
in every line of his vagabond face.
"Go on," he said, in an anxious whisper; "pray go on."
She looked out thoughtfully into the gathering darkness, without
answering, without appearing to have heard him. Her lips closed, and her
clasped hands tightened mechanically round her knees.
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