Aylesford gazed at the speaker with undisguised astonishment. But there was evidently no jest in what Arrison said. His plan, whatever it was, he clearly considered feasible.
“I give you my word,” reaching over and taking the outlaw’s hand, “which I never broke to any man yet—”
“We’ll say nothing of woman,” interrupted Arrison, with a coarse laugh.
“Which I never broke to any man yet,” repeated Aylesford, “that I’ll pay you a thousand pounds if you succeed. On the day I marry my cousin, the money is yours.”
“I’ll put her in New York for half the sum—is it a bargain?”
“It is,” answered Aylesford. “Now for the scheme.”
But we must reserve this for another chapter.
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE PLOT
Foul whisperings are abroad; and unnat’ral deeds. —Shakespeare.
I follow you.
To do I know not what. —Shakespeare.