The Watchers: A Novel

by A. E. W. Mason

"Then mother has forgotten all about the secret."

I reflected for a moment or two.

"Dick."

"Yes."

"Did you ever try that plan with Miss Helen?"

"No," said he, shaking his head.

"I will," said I, airily, "or something like it."

"Something like it would be best," said Dick.

The story which I told to Helen was not after all very like it. I said:

"The watchers have gone and gone for ever. They were here not for any revenge, but for their profit. There was a treasure in St. Helen's which Cullen Mayle was to show them the way to--if they could catch him and force him. They had some claim to it--I showed them the way."