Henry Annesley, and yet he has not said a word about
it, while search was being made on all sides. And he saw him under
circumstances most suspicious in their nature; so suspicious as to have
made the police arrest him if they were aware of them. He had at that
moment grossly insulted Captain Scarborough."
"No, mamma; no, it was not so."
"How do you know? how can you tell?"
"I do know; and I can tell. The ill-usage had come from the other side."
"Then you, too, have known the secret, and have said nothing about it?
You, too, have been aware of the violence which took place at that
midnight meeting? You have been aware of what befell your cousin, the
man to whom you were all but engaged. And you have held your tongue at
the instigation, no doubt, of Mr. Henry Annesley. Oh, Florence, you also
will find yourself in the hands of the policeman!" At this moment the
fly drew up at the door of the house in Montpelier Place, and the two
ladies had to get out and walk up the steps into the hall, where they
were congratulated on their early return from the party by the
lady's-maid.
"Mamma, I will go to bed," said Florence, as soon as she reached her
mother's room.
"I think you had better, my dear, though Heaven knows what disturbances
there may be during the night.
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