"I want to be so still. Madame de Nemours has told me the story of Ravenel."
McDermott waited, serene, inspiredly silent.
"But," Katrine went on, "I was a bit prepared for it. Almost the last thing father said to me before he died was that you were planning trouble for Mr. Ravenel."
McDermott waited still, but with a sterner look upon his keen and ardent face.
"Madame de Nemours has told me you need only a paper and a certain witness at Tours to carry out your purpose. Is it true?"
"It is."
"And that purpose is—" She hesitated.
"To see justice done to Madame de Nemours," he answered.
"It will mean that Mr. Ravenel has no right either to his home or his name?"
The pleading and protest in her voice did not escape Dermott as he answered: