Our idea is to watch
all the roads leading to Ottam's Wood and to have men in ambush near
the spring to seize any one hiding there at that time. Then we shall
know who is at the bottom of all these plots and shall be able to
smash the whole conspiracy. In addition, Deede Dawson and this other
man you speak of, Allen, are going to break into the Abbey tomorrow
evening and we are to be ready for them and catch them in the act?"
"Yes," said Dunn, "that's the idea; you can manage all right?"
"Oh, yes," answered Walter. "It's all simple enough--you've
planned it out so jolly well there's nothing much left for me to
do. And I don't see what you're nervous about; there's nothing
that can go wrong very well--your plans are perfect, I think."
"It's easy enough to make plans when you know just what the other
side are going to do," observed Dunn. "There's one point more.
Miss Cayley--I mentioned her in one of the notes I sent you through
Burns."
"Yes, I remember--Deede Dawson's step-daughter," said Walter. "I
suppose she is in it?"
"She is not; she knows nothing," declared Dunn vehemently.
"But it was she who took away poor Charley's body, wasn't it?" asked
Walter. "But for that you would have had evidence enough to act on
at once, wouldn't you?"
"She did not know what she was doing," Dunn replied. "And now she
is in danger herself.
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