You as much as say that by giving him a second opportunity to kill John Adare you are proving your loyalty to Josephine and her father.

Can that be anything but madness ?" An almost gentle smile nickered over Jean's lips.

He looked at Philip as if marvelling that the other could not understand.
"Within an hour it will be Jean Jacques Croisset who will take up the trail," he replied softly, and without boastfulness.

"It is I, and not the master of Adare House, who will come to the end of that trail.

And there will be no other shot after that, and no one will ever know--but you and me." "You mean that you will follow and kill him--and that John Adare must never know that an attempt has been made on his life ?" "He must never know, M'sieur.