He had seen his home, as he would have it--
and he had seen Dan there, safe and happy at his mother's side.
Was he entitled to disregard the happiness of his wife, the life
of his boy, the honourable name of Sir Noel Rourke, because an
outcast like Peters had come to a fitting end--because a
treacherous Malay and a renegade Chinaman had, earlier, gone the
same way, sped, as he suspected, by the same hand?
"My resources are unusual," added Chada, speaking almost in a
whisper. "I have cash to this amount in my safe------"
So far he had proceeded when he was interrupted; and the cause of
the interruption was this:
A few moments earlier another dramatic encounter had taken place
in a distant part of the house. Kerry Junior, having
scientifically tested all the possible modes of egress from the
room in which Lady Pat was confined, had long ago desisted, and
had exhausted his ingenuity in plans which discussion had proved
to be useless. In spite of the novelty and the danger of his
situation, nature was urging her laws. He was growing sleepy.
The crowning tragedy had been the discovery that he could not
regain the small, square window set high in the wall from which
he had dropped into this luxurious prison.
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