Every time you go to Mr. Bygrave's house, every time you
see Miss Bygrave, you are drawing nearer and nearer to your destruction.
They have got the bandage over your eyes in spite of me; but I tell
them, and tell you, before many days are over I will take it off!" To
this extraordinary outbreak--accompanied as it was by an expression in
Mrs. Lecount's face which he had never seen there before--Noel Vanstone
had made no reply. Mr. Bygrave's conviction that there was a lurking
taint of insanity in the housekeeper's blood had recurred to his
memory, and he had left the room at the first opportunity.
Captain Wragge listened with the closest attention to the narrative thus
presented to him. But one conclusion could be drawn from it--it was a
plain warning to him to hasten the end.
"I am not surprised," he said, gravely, "to hear that you are inclining
more favorably to my opinion. After what you have just told me, Mr.
Vanstone, no sensible man could do otherwise. This is becoming
serious. I hardly know what results may not be expected to follow the
communication of your approaching change in life to Mrs. Lecount. My
niece may be involved in those results.
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