"You brought your father's letter with you?" I suggested.
"Yes."
"But there is a lodge. We passed through the gates to-night."
"Fortune favoured me. That morning, after I had escaped from Treviscoe, just as I came up to the lodge gates, I saw two men talking to each other. I heard the one call the other Adam Coad."
"I see; and Adam received you?"
"After I had proved to him who I was—yes."
"And—and you trust him?"
"He is all my father said of him, and more. He has been kindness itself to me; through him I was able to bring you here. You are safe, too. Old Adam, his wife, and a serving-man who has lived with them all these years, are all, I verily believe, ready to die for me."
"Then you are staying here in secret?"