"I will take care to do so on the earliest opportunity."
"Make friends with my people and they will be your friends. We never forget, sir. That is why I am here in this English country, because we never forget."
"The best of qualities.... They tell me that your father was his Excellency's friend in Roumania many years ago."
The gypsy looked at him questioningly.
"It is as you say, sir. They were brothers of the hills. When the houses burned and the women ran from the soldiers, then men said it is Zallony and the English lord. There was another with them. He is in prison now—he who was my father's friend. Sir, I come to England to give him liberty."
Gavin was greatly interested. He drained the little cup of coffee, and, filling a pipe slowly, he said:
"What forbids your success?"
Zallony's son looked him straight in the face.
"A lady known to us—she may forbid it, sir."
"You cannot mean the Lady Evelyn?"