If we are to be friends, you must not interfere in my affairs." "I don't like these secret doings," said I, "and my father would not like them either." "Your father can speak for himself, and there is no secret," said he, curtly.

"It is you with your imaginings that make a secret.

Ta, ta, ta! I have no patience with such foolishness." And without as much as a nod, he turned his back upon me, and started walking swiftly to West Inch.
Well, I followed him, and in the worst of tempers; for I had a feeling that there was some mischief in the wind, and yet I could not for the life of me think what it all meant.

Again I found myself puzzling over the whole mystery of this man's coming, and of his long residence among us.

And whom could he have expected to meet at the Peel Tower?
Was the fellow a spy, and was it some brother spy who came to speak with him there?
But that was absurd.