“Not solely. I can’t tell you all about it; but Janet saw some memoranda of your father’s, and he wants to get hold of them.”
“To pervert them to some quackery?”
“If not, I do him great injustice.”
“Give them up to a rogue like that! I should guess not! It will be some little time before he tries again. Well done, little mother!”
“If he will not turn upon her.”
“What a speculation he must have thought her.”
“Don’t talk of it, Jock; I can’t bear to think of her in such hands.”
“Janet has a spirit of her own. I should think she could get her way with her subtle Athenian. Where did he drop from?”
“He overtook me on my way back from the Church, for indeed I did not mean to break my appointment. I don’t think the servants knew who was here. And Jock, if you mention it to the others, don’t speak of this matter of the papers. Call it, as you may with truth, an attempt to extort money.”
“Very well,” he gravely said.