“I really asked you here, Homfray, to put a question to you—one which I trust you will answer with truth.”
“Certainly I will,” the young man replied frankly.
The old man fixed him with his deep-set eyes, and in a strange voice put to him a question which caused him to gasp.
“A young girl named Edna Manners has mysteriously disappeared. You know something concerning the affair! Tell me, what do you know?”
Chapter Eleven.
The House of Mystery.
In an instant Roddy recovered himself. He saw that if he repeated the story of finding the girl in Welling Wood he would not be believed. And if Mr Sandys did not believe the strange truth, he would likewise not believe in his bona fides concerning the hoped-for concession in Morocco. He therefore pursued a rather injudicious policy of evasion.
“I know no girl named Edna Manners,” he replied.