Out at Tralee was evidently a rare orchid carefully shielded by the gardener.
As Mazarine left the lawyer's office, he met in the doorway that member of the McMahon family for whom Burlingame had secured a verdict of acquittal a couple of hours before.

As was his custom, Mazarine gave the other a sharp, scrutinizing look, but he saw no one he knew; and he passed on.

The furtive smile which had betrayed his content at pocketing the six thousand dollars still lingered at the corners of his mouth.
Though he did not know the legally innocent McMahon whom he had just passed, McMahon was not so ignorant.

There was no one in all the countryside whom the McMahons did not know.

It was their habit--or something else--to be familiar with the history of everybody thereabouts, although they lived secluded lives at Arrowhead Ranch, which adjoined that belonging to Orlando Guise.
When Tom McMahon saw Mazarine leave Burlingame's office, his furtive eye lighted.