“No,” replied Mr Braine; “and in spite of my long experience of the man, I am half-disposed to think that I may be wrong.”
“Then you do not think I need stay?”
“Oh no.”
“Because I should not like to be out of the way if there was any trouble.”
“You need have no fear for to-day. He has been perfectly quiet and interested in some affairs connected with the rajah of the next state. This man has offended him, and I should not feel a bit surprised if war broke out between them.”
“I don’t care what breaks out so long as you are wrong in your ideas about that affair,” said Murray, excitedly. “It worries me so that I hardly like to leave the place to go collecting.”
Mr Braine smiled to himself as he saw how genuine Murray’s interest was.
“You shall have the earliest information if anything is wrong,” he said.
“But why wait for anything to be wrong. Would it not be much better for the ladies to leave this place at once?”
“Much better, of course.”