The fact is, Rupert Dunsmore played me a nasty trick
once, and I want to clear accounts with him. Now, suppose I show
him to you--?"
"You do that," said Dunn, and he repeated the oath he had sworn
before. "You show him to me, and I'll take care he never troubles
any one again."
"That's the way I like to hear a man talk," cried Deede Dawson.
"Dunsmore has been away for a time on business I can make a guess
at, but he is coming back soon. Should you know him if you saw
him?"
"Should I know him?" repeated Dunn contemptuously. "Should I know
myself?"
"That's good," said Deede Dawson again. "By the way, perhaps you
can tell me, hasn't Lord Chobham a rather distant cousin, Walter
Dunsmore, living with him as secretary or something of the sort
--quite a distant relative, I believe, though in the direct line
of succession?"
"Very likely," said Dunn indifferently. "I think so, but I don't
care anything about the rest of them. It's only Rupert Dunsmore I
have anything against."
CHAPTER XIX
THE VISIT TO WRESTE ABBEY
It was a little later when Deede Dawson returned to the subject of
Wreste Abbey.
"Lord Chobham has a very valuable collection of plate and jewellery
and so on, hasn't he?" he asked.
"Oh, there's plenty of the stuff there," Dunn answered. "Why?"
"Oh, I was thinking a visit might be made fairly profitable," Deede
Dawson said carelessly, for the first time definitely throwing off
his mask of law-abiding citizen under which he lived at Bittermeads.
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