“You heard all that, did you?” he asked, almost mechanically.
“Every word of it.”
“Between my daughter and Captain Maynard?”
“I have said so, uncle.”
“Then say it to no one else. Keep it to yourself, Frank, till I speak to you again. Go now! I’ve Government business to attend to, that requires all my time. Go?”
The nephew, thus authoritatively dismissed, retired from the library.
As soon as he was outside the door, the baronet sprang up out of his chair; and striding excitedly around the room, exclaimed to himself:
“This comes of showing kindness to a republican—a traitor to his Queen!”