He gave the signal of the white cloth—indeed, gave it without care as to whether or not there was any one near or not.
A minute later a carriage came dashing over the hill.
Four men sprang out, one seizing the horses, while one knocked the driver from the box and climbed up himself.
Two others climbed into the coach from either side.
Then the coach made straight for the landing where the launch was.
Patsy started on a run for the little pier, and at the land end waited, well hidden.
As the coach whirled up, he could see within it.
Edith was there, and so was Blanche Constant, but both were unconscious.
Masson and Moore were both there also. The two men—the signal man and the one who had stopped the horses—were left behind.
Masson had planned to seize Blanche Constant as she was returning from the funeral of her sister and carry her off in his yacht.