Wyatt shook his head.
“Well,” he said, “what shall I do? Go and see him?”
“Alone?”
“Why not?” said Wyatt. “If he is sincere there is nothing to mind.”
Hulton hesitated.
“I hardly like you to go alone, Wyatt,” he said. “We will go with you.”
“And give them the opportunity to trap us all together if he means anything wrong. No; you stay here and quietly be getting everything ready. If I am not back in half-an-hour, come for me; and if things have gone wrong, seize him and the Ranee. It is our only chance.”
“And you’ll go alone?”
“Yes,” said Wyatt, drawing himself up and frowning, “I’ll go alone; and if I feel satisfied that he has done this, I’ll cut him down even if I die for it the next minute.”
Captain Hulton’s lips parted to speak, but Wyatt strode out without turning, walked across the hall, and went straight to where a group of the Rajah’s guards stood on duty outside the room he occupied.