Now what are your questions ?" "In the first place, did your late father ever speak to you of his brother as being a missionary in China ?" She shook her head, and from the look upon her face I could see that I had touched upon something painful.

This, at least, was one of the things that had struck her as suspicious.
"If he were a missionary, I am quite sure my father did not know it," she said.

"In fact I always understood that he was somewhat of a scapegrace, and in consequence could never settle down to anything.

That is your first, now what is your second question, Mr.Fairfax ?" I paused for a moment before I replied.
"My second partakes more of the nature of an assertion than a question," I answered.

"As I read it, you are more afraid of what may happen should the two men meet than anything else." "Yes, that is just what I _am_ afraid of," she replied.