Then the door swung open and a man leaped in.
Almost instantly he pulled up the blind shutters which covered the glass and shut out all the light, so that the interior of the car was in complete darkness.
Kathleen gave a little cry and shrank back against the cushions. For in the darkness she felt the car give a great bound onwards and rush down the hill.
She heard a low laugh, and then the scraping of a hand as it fumbled for the electric button.
The hand groping in the darkness found the switch and flooded the car with light.
Kathleen sat bolt upright and uttered a second cry as she saw grinning at her from the opposite side of the car the evil face of Melun.
[CHAPTER XX
THE FARM ON THE HILL]
For a while Kathleen was too bewildered to say anything, but soon one ugly fact stood out hard and convincing. She had been betrayed.