The "friar of orders grey" obeyed my hasty summons, and I accepted his arm with very great empressement, stammering some excuse to the sable domino in the doorway, and walked down the hall.
"Well, have you discovered him?"
"No, I do not know him at all, he is very odd. I think he is a stranger. Not anybody, at all events, that any of us know well."
"I cannot understand it," he said, musingly. "I thought you would have been able to have obtained some clue. He seemed willing to talk to you."
"Only too willing!"
"Did he seem to recognize you?"
"I cannot tell exactly; he certainly thought he knew, but whether it were not a mistake on his part, I cannot say."
"He avoids me; I cannot make anything of him; I shall have to put some one else on the track."
"What of my cousin?" I asked.
"I found Kitty, who says she is not very well, but will probably be in the room a little before supper."