"Then I'll do it. Guy Fenwick hasn't treated me right, and I don't mind if I do go back on him. It was he that hired me to make off with little Robert, though I didn't let him know what I did with him."
"And what was your present object?"
"To take the boy away and make Sir Guy pay a good round sum for my keeping the secret."
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE DETECTIVE SECURES AN ALLY.
"Are you in communication with Guy Fenwick? Do you know whether he is now at Fenwick Hall?" asked the detective.
"No, he is not there."
"Where is he, then?"
"At sea. In a day or two he will probably be in New York," answered Jane Gilman coolly.