Circumstances seemed to favor the gratification of this wish, for not many rods away he caught sight of Peggy and Lyman Taylor talking together.
"I'll go and tell her," he said.
We will precede him and relate what had taken place between the two schemers. Peggy had started out with the confident belief that Lyman had played her false, and meant to carry away Jack without her knowledge or consent. It did, indeed, look as if she were correct, for it must be remembered that she knew nothing of Mark's mission to Chicago, Lyman not having thought it necessary to tell her. She wanted to meet Lyman and "have it out with him," if she found any confirmation in her suspicions.
Lyman chanced to turn, and seeing Peggy with her eyes fixed on him, retraced his steps till he reached her.
"Do you want to see me, Peggy?" he asked.
"Yes, I wanted to see you, Mr. Lyman Taylor, and ask what you mane by tryin' to stale away the bye from me?"
Lyman stared at her in surprise.
"I don't know what you mean," he answered, with a shrug of his shoulders. "I thought it was understood that we would restore the boy to his grandfather if he would make it worth our while."
"And you didn't mane to take away the bye without my knowin' it?"
"Certainly not. Who told you so?"