“They were in disguise.”
“I cannot tell. I know only that I am in despair. I know——”
“Try to be calm,” Nolan again interrupted. “Wait till you regain your strength. You then will be able to leave here, and——”
“Leave here?”
Lady Waldmere looked at him with a sudden wild hope leaping up in her tear-filled eyes.
“That’s what I said,” Nolan nodded.
“Do you mean—do you mean that you are not in the employ of my abductors?” Lady Waldmere asked, in faltering, frantic whispers. “Do you mean——”
“Oh, I’m in their employ, all right,” Nolan dryly put in.
“Alas, then——”
“But not as you infer,” Nolan added.