What was it?
His father and Jock had kept the secret from him.
He put his hand in the pocket again.

There was another note--this time in a woman's handwriting: Oh, come to me, if you would save us both! Do not fail.

God help us! Oh, Robert! It was signed "Agnes." Well, here was something of mystery; but he did not trouble himself about that.

He was not at Ridley Court to solve mysteries, to probe into the past, to set his father's wrongs right; but to serve himself, to reap for all those years wherein his father had not reaped.

He enjoyed life, and he would search this one to the full of his desires.