"
He was overcome with astonishment, and he showed it.
"Upon my soul," he said, "I do not appear to have been told any
of the facts. Strange that O'Moy should never have mentioned that,"
he muttered, and then inquired suddenly: "Where was Tremayne
arrested?"
"Here," she informed him.
"Here? He was here, then, at midnight? What was he doing here?"
"I don't know. But whatever he was doing, can your lordship
believe that he would have come here to fight a secret duel?"
"It certainly puts a monstrous strain upon belief," said he. "But
what can he have been doing here?"
"I don't know," she repeated. She wanted to add a warning of O'Moy.
She was tempted to tell his lordship of the odd words that O'Moy
had used to her last night concerning Tremayne. But she hesitated,
and her courage failed her. Lord Wellington was so great a man,
bearing the destinies of nations on his shoulders, and already he
had wasted upon her so much of the time that belonged to the world
and history, that she feared to trespass further; and whilst she
hesitated came Colquhoun Grant clanking across the quadrangle
looking for his lordship. He had come up, he announced, standing
straight and stiff before them, to see O'Moy, but hearing of Lord
Wellington's presence, had preferred to see his lordship in the
first instance.
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