Your investigations cannot have been interrupted, or I should have heard of it.

Come to the result! Have you found anything of importance in my niece's room ?" Mr.Le Frank had again been baffled, so far as the confirmation of his own suspicions was concerned.

But the time was not favourable to a confession of personal disappointment.

He understood the situation; and made himself the hero of it, in three words.
"Judge for yourself," he said--and held out the letter of warning from Father Patrizio.
In silence, Mrs.Gallilee read the words which declared her to be the object of Teresa's inveterate resentment, and which charged Carmina with the serious duty of keeping the peace.
"Does it alarm you ?" Mr.Le Frank asked.
"I hardly know what I feel," she answered.

"Give me time to think." Mr.Le Frank went back to his chair.