As Geoffrey returned he was thinking of the list, and he looked for it, with something of alarm at its absence. When he realized that it was gone he walked through the kitchen and called up Reynolds.
"Were you in the room since I went out?" he asked.
"No, my lord."
"Is there any one else in the house?"
"No, my lord."
"Has there been any one else here to-night?"
The old man hesitated before he answered this time.
"No, my lord; no one has been here."
Geoffrey had not the slightest reason to doubt the faithful old man, but had asked the questions for reassurance. As he retired for the night, or rather morning, he said to himself that Dacre had no doubt taken the document, which was too precious and too dangerous to be left in any other hands.