He frowned heavily.
"If this absurd story is true," he said, "and the Duke has really sent to ask news of Blenavon from you--well, he is a bigger fool than I took him for.

But there remains something else to be explained.

What are those papers ?" My father laid his trembling hands upon them.
"They have nothing to do with you," he explained; "nothing at all! It is a little family matter-between Guy and me.

Nothing more.

They belong to me.