I think that some one was trying to blackmail him.

Now you can make what inquiries you like, but I am very certain of one thing, that anything you may discover is more likely to bring discredit upon Lord Ronald himself than anybody else." "Madam," Andrew said, "your story, of course, I am bound to accept as the truth, but I must tell you frankly that I shall pass it on to the Duke, who will take up his inquiries from the point you name.

If he finds that the facts do not correspond with what you have told me, I fear that the consequences will be disagreeable for all of you." "Of what on earth do you suspect us ?" Major Forrest asked sharply.

"Do you think that we have made away with Engleton?
Why should we?
We may be the adventurers you delicately suggest, but at least we should have an object in our crimes.

Engleton had not a ten-pound note of ready money with him.