You're sure you never set eyes on Sir Gilbert again after he and Hollins stopped you ?" he asked suddenly, as we went down the stair.

"Nor heard his voice down here--or anywhere ?" "I never saw him again, nor heard him," answered Maisie.

"And till Hugh came just now, I'd never seen Hollins himself since morning and--Oh!" She had caught sight of the still figure stretched out in the lower room, and she shrank to me as we hurried her past it and down to the gateway below.

Thither Murray followed us, and after a bit more questioning he put her in a car in which he and some of the others had come up, and sent one of his men off with her; but before this Maisie pulled me away into the darkness and gripped me tight by the arm.
"You'll promise me, Hugh, before ever I go, that you'll not run yourself into any more dangers ?" she asked earnestly.

"We've been through enough of that, and I'm just more than satisfied with it, and it's like as if there was something lurking about--" She began to shiver as she looked into the black night about us--and it was indeed, although in summer time, as black a night as ever I saw--and her hand got a tighter grip on mine.
"How do you know yon bad man isn't still about ?" she whispered.