Eva stood for a long time shocked into inaction. Then, slowly, fears for Locke's safety came uppermost and she paced back and forth the length of the hall.
Finally the old butler came to her deferentially.
"And did you notice, ma'am," he asked, "that during his tirade he mentioned about a cove fishing-village? Might I suggest that that is where Mr. Paul is and Mr. Locke will not be found far off?"
Eva thought a moment, recognized the sound sense of the remark, and ordered that her car be brought. A few moments later she had taken the wheel and was soon out of sight of Brent Rock.
Close pressed against a wall of a back lane of the cove fishing-village, Locke was standing, waiting for the men whom his chief had promised to send.
Finally they came to him, first making their coming known to Locke by a peculiar low whistle.
"The other two will be along directly," whispered one of the pair. "Thought it better not to come in a bunch."
As Locke laid his plans, the other two came from out of the shadows.
The entire party now moved cautiously toward Old Tom's shack. Just before they arrived one of the men said that he could see two figures entering the place. But as Locke had seen nothing, no attention was paid to the remark.
Locke now placed one of his men on either side of the door. The other two he sent to the rear, so that they could surround the gang.