So I thought, this evening I would take up my place here, to assure myself that there was no traitor in the household.

I had been here but five minutes when the fellow stole quietly up, and placed his ear at the opening of the casement, and you may be sure that I gave him no time to listen to what was being said." "Well, we had better go in," Sir Marmaduke said.

"There is no fear of our being overheard this evening.
"Charlie, do you take old Banks aside, and tell him what has happened, and then go with him to the room where that fellow slept, and make a thorough search of any clothes he may have left behind, and of the room itself.

Should you find any papers or documents, you will, of course, bring them down to me." But the closest search, by Charlie and the old butler, produced no results.

Not a scrap of paper of any kind was found, and Banks said that he knew the man could neither read nor write.
The party below soon broke up, considerable uneasiness being felt, by all, at the incident of the evening.