"Very well. You may keep the letter."
"One question more. You tell me that Sir Guy Fenwick is on his way to New York. Can you tell me why he is coming?"
"Yes. I dropped him a hint, in answer to this letter, that the boy Robert was still living, and this alarmed my gentleman," she added with a laugh.
"Did he write you that he was coming?"
"Yes."
"Have you that letter?"
"No; but I can tell you what was in it. He wrote that he did not believe my story, but he would come to New York, and I might call upon him at the Brevoort House on Monday next."
"You infer from that that he was anxious?"
"It looks like it, doesn't it?"
"Yes. What did you propose to say to him?"