He's got the papers, or claims to have, and they must be the ones stolen from your father.

I have been trusting you might know something in your family history which would make it all plain." "But I do not," decisively.

"You must believe me; not so much as a hint of any secret has ever reached me.

There are only the four of us, Father, Mother, Fred, and I.I am sure there can be no secret; nothing which I would not know.

Perhaps, if I could see Miss Maclaire--" "I am convinced that would be useless," he interrupted, rising, and pacing across the floor.