"I will go."
Old Broadbrim arose and left the house.
Belle Demona said she would prepare the message to be carried, and requested him to come back within five minutes.
Five minutes!
He would have to warn Waters.
He found the young man smoking as usual in the guards' house, and broached the subject at once.
"It means something, this ride," said Waters at once. "She is playing a game."
"I believe it. I can't be back before to-morrow. We must put off the blow."
"I see no other way, but be careful. There may be underneath this mission the fatal stroke of death. She may suspect, and if she does, our plans fail."
Old Broadbrim went back to the main house and was handed a package addressed to one Thomas Sang, in Perth, the woman saying that it contained some of her jewels which were to be reset, the man addressed being a jeweler.