"May I, too, go?" asked Betty, with the double motive, doubtless, of helping and seeing. Lilly, engaged in his incantations, would be an inspiring sight to her.
"No, no, you may not go with us," answered Hamilton.
Betty's eyes looked up to me entreatingly, so I took up her cause, and suggested:—
"Lilly may want to question her about what the girl said."
"You are right," returned George. "Wrap yourself up well, Betty, and come along. We'll take a coach to Lilly's."
A porter soon brought us a coach, and Betty, having explained to her father where and why she was going, climbed in with George and me, and we were off.
CHAPTER IX
KIDNAPPED
We found Lilly at home, eager to help us. He asked many questions relating to my cousin's life and her friends at court, to all of which I made full answer in so far as I knew, including an account of the king's objectionable attentions. I suspected that the Doctor would make more use of the knowledge he obtained from me than of that to be received from the stars, but I did not care how he reached his conclusions if he could but tell us how and where to find Frances.
Lilly questioned Betty also, and when he had learned all that she knew, he left us seated in the parlor while he went to his observatory to set a figure. In the course of ten minutes he returned and gave us the result of his calculations, as follows:—