CHAPTER XXII.
AT LONE.
The Duke of Hereward went out to the close cab that was waiting for him before the door.
He found his valet standing by it, with a pair of railroad rugs over his arm.
He directed the man to mount to a seat beside the cabman, and gave the latter orders where to drive.
Then he entered the cab and closed all the doors and windows, that he might not be seen by any chance acquaintance.
He was supposed by all the world of London to be away on his wedding tour, and he was willing to let them continue to believe so, until they should be enlightened by a report of the great trial, when they would learn the fact and the explanation at once, and thus be prevented from making undesirable conjectures and speculations concerning his presence at such a time in England.
He leaned back on his seat, and the cabman, having received directions from the valet, drove rapidly off toward the Great Northern Railway Station at Kings Cross.
An hour's fast drive brought them to their destination.
The duke dispatched his valet to the ticket office to engage a coupe on the express train, so that he might be entirely private.