instantly, but he declines. Uncle Bendigo is on Captain
Redmayne's side I can see. He would not, I am sure, do anything
to interfere with the law, but he is convinced that we do not
know all there is to be told about this terrible thing. The
motor boat from 'Crow's Nest' will be at Kingswear Ferry to
meet the train reaching there at two o'clock to-morrow and I
hope you may still be at Paignton and able to come here for a
few hours."

She added a word of thanks to him and a regret that his holiday was
being spoiled by her tragedy.

Whereupon the man's thoughts turned to her entirely and he forgot
for a while the significance of her letter. He had expected to see
her that night at Princetown. Instead he would find her far nearer,
in the house on the cliffs beyond Dartmouth.

He telegraphed presently that he would meet the launch. Then he had
leisure to be annoyed that the letter from Robert Redmayne was thus
delayed. He speculated on Bendigo Redmayne.

"A brother is a brother," he thought, "and no doubt this old
sailor's home would offer a very efficient hiding-place for any
vanished man."




CHAPTER IV