"And now you do not think that will be possible?"
Instead of replying to this question Lord Gordon asked suddenly:
"How far would you two boys go in trying to release your comrade?"
"We are ready to take any chances," Jacob replied firmly.
"Does that mean you would imperil your lives in the effort to save his?"
The boys looked at each other in something very like alarm, for Lord Gordon's tone was exceedingly grave, and then Enoch replied in a voice which trembled despite all his efforts to render it steady:
"I am willing and ready to do anything, no matter what, to help Seth."
"So am I," Jacob added emphatically.
While one might have counted twenty Lord Gordon remained silent, looking like a man who is uncertain as to what he ought to do, and then he said quietly:
"Then meet me opposite the town-house at half an hour before midnight. It is only by desperate measures that his life can be saved, and I am ready to aid you in so far as I can without dishonor. It will not be well for us to be seen together, neither are you to visit Mrs. Graydon. Be at the rendezvous promptly, and Seth shall be free by sunrise, or there will no longer remain any hope of aiding him."