“But from all I knew of Lyle he was a most highly respectable person. In Belgrade they still speak of him with greatest respect.”
“Leonard Lyle in Belgrade, my dear chap, may have been a very different person to Leonard Lyle in other countries, you know,” was his friend’s reply.
“But why has his daughter given me this warning, at the same time taking care to conceal her identity.”
“She was a short, dark-haired girl, rather good-looking, except that her top teeth protruded a little; about nineteen or so—eh?”
“Exactly.”
“And depend upon it that she has warned you at Maud’s request, in order that you may be forearmed against the blow which the pair are going to strike.”
“And which we—you and I, Max—are going to assist—eh?” added the other, grimly.