“Wait and see. If it was he, and he has some new scheme, it will be declared in due time. Nothing yet from the Government?”
“No!”
“It’s a bluff! So long as they think you have the jewels, they will try for them. There’s Captain Carrington standing at his office door. Suppose we go over.”
“Sitting up to grandfather-in-law!” laughed Croyden. “Distinctly proper, sir, distinctly 259 proper! Go and chat with him; I’ll stop for you, presently.”
Meanwhile, the two women had continued on to Ashburton.
“Did he recognize me?” Elaine asked, dropping her muff from before her face, when they were past the two men.
“I think not,” answered Davila.
“Did he give any indication of it?”
“None, whatever.”