“Home, dear.”

“Home? Oh, thank Heaven!”

They all heard her, and even the detective was constrained to say:

“Poor thing, she needn’t have been afraid. She is suffering for some one else.”

Sir Charles Dyke grasped Bruce’s arm.

“What on earth is going on?” he said.

“Merely a foolish woman worrying herself about others,” replied Bruce grimly.

“But those people were my old friends, Mensmore and his sister?”

“Yes.”

“What are they doing here?”