"I have the certificate of our marriage here," she continued, producing a paper, "signed by the holy father who united us."
Kate waved it back. "I do not wish to see it, nor do I doubt your word," she replied, gently; "I understand now why you first came to this house. What brings you here to-night?"
"I come to warn you that your father is in danger."
"My father!" Kate exclaimed, quickly, her whole manner changed. "Where? How?"
"Señor Walcott has an engagement with him at eight o'clock at their offices, and he means to do him harm, I know not just what; but he is angry with him, I know not why, and he is a dangerous man when he is angry."
Kate touched a bell to summon a servant. "I will go to him at once; but," she added, looking keenly into the woman's face, "how do you know of this? How did you learn it? Did he tell you?"
The other shook her head with a significant gesture. "He tells me nothing; he tells no one but Tony, and Tony tells me nothing; but I saw them talking together to-night, and he was very angry. I overheard some words. I heard him say he would see your father to-night and make him sorry he had not done as he agreed, and he showed Tony a little stiletto which he carries with him, and then he laughed."
Kate shuddered slightly. "Who is Tony?" she asked.
The woman smiled with another gesture. "Tony is—Tony; that is all I know. He and my husband know each other."