She might have added, that it was the only way she knew—her wealth having made all roads easy to her.
The meal finished, they went back to their apartment, to find the bed turned down for the night, and certain lingerie, which they were without, laid out for them. 291
“Better and better!” exclaimed Elaine. “You might think this was a hotel.”
“Until you tried to go out.”
“We haven’t tried, yet—wait until morning.” A pack of cards was on the table. “See how thoughtful they are! Come, I’ll play you Camden for a cent a point.”
“I can’t understand what their move is?” said Davila, presently. “What can they hope to accomplish by abducting us—or me, at any rate. It seems they don’t want anything from us.”
“I make it, that they hope to extort something, from a third party, through us—by holding us prisoners.”
“Captain Carrington has no money—it can’t be he,” said Davila, “and yet, why else should they seize me?”
“The question is, whose hand are they trying to force?” reflected Elaine. “They will hold us until something is acceded to, the man said. Until what is acceded to, and by whom?”
“You think that we are simply the pawns?” asked Davila.