“Oh, you are quite welcome, I am sure.”
Samuel Standish leaned forward and said: “I want some papers that you are carrying about with you.”—Page [215].
“I must trouble you to release me at once, as Mr. Brooke expects me back at the hotel. We had arranged to take an excursion.”
“I shouldn’t like to interfere with any little arrangement you have made. Gerald, I am your friend, though you may not think it.”
“Well, your treatment of me this morning doesn’t seem like it. Is it your custom to trap and kidnap those to whom you are friendly?”
Mr. Standish laughed.
“Not in general,” he answered, “but I wanted an interview with you for special reasons.”
“It was not necessary to kidnap me in order to obtain it. If you had requested an interview I would have granted it.”