Leave it all to me." "But how--" "This matter you will please leave entirely to me, Winnie," he repeated with determination.

"We are both in danger--great danger; and that being so, it is incumbent upon me to act boldly and fearlessly.

I mean to get the key, and see what is within that safe." "But the girl ?" asked her ladyship.
"Within one week from to-day the girl will no longer trouble us," he said with an evil glance.

"I do not intend that she shall remain a barrier against our good fortune any longer.

Understand that, and remain perfectly calm, whatever may happen." "But you surely don't intend--you surely will not--" "I shall act as I think proper, and without any sentimental advice from you," he declared with a mock bow, but straightening himself instantly when at the door was heard a fumbling, and the gray-bearded man in blue spectacles, his thin white hand groping before him, slowly entered the room..