"Has she any money?" demanded Elspeth. "Oh, yes. Her father left her one thousand a year to get along on."
"And she is using that to ruin me," said Herries bitterly.
"You can't blame her," retorted Kind quickly, "one thousand a year is a drop from fifty thousand. However, she and her lover and Mrs. Mountford are in London, so that disposes of them for the present. Ritson is holding the property, until such time as Herries turns up to claim it."
"I can't claim it until I learn who killed my uncle."
"Quite so, and you can learn that from Señora Guzman."
"Is she still at Pierside?"
"Of course. I sneaked along there the other day and learned that the 'Tarabacca' was still alongside the wharf. I didn't go down to the docks as I thought that greaser I knocked down might knife me. Oh, she's there, right enough, and keeps on board most of the time."
"I wonder she doesn't go to London to see Captain Kyles."
"I wonder also, seeing that she believes, as is really the case, that Kyles is engaged to Miss Tedder. But perhaps she's got something up her sleeve."
"What can it be?" mused Elspeth.