"We won't let it, Jim boy. That's in our hands at all events, and we'll see to it."
[CHAPTER XXXV]
EXPLANATIONS
It was after ten o'clock the next night when they drove into Wyvveloe and knocked on Mrs. Jex's door. Mrs. Jex had gone to bed and so had Gracie. Eager himself answered their knock, and jumped with surprise at sight of them.
"Why--Jack--Jim! What on earth----"
"We'll tell you if you'll let us in," said Jack.
"Now what mischief have you been getting into?" said Eager, as they sat down before the fire, and he knocked the wood into life.
"It's not us this time. We've come to ask you something, Mr. Eager; and if you can't tell us we are going on to see Sir Denzil." And Charles Eager knew, without more telling, that the boys had somehow fallen on the mystery of their birth.
"Go on," he nodded.
"You know what we want to know?"