15/42 "Now what a plague is all this mystery ?" he inquired. "What mystery should there be ?" "'Tis what I would fain be informed," he answered in a voice that showed he meant to gain the information. He sauntered forward towards Caryll, his eye playing mockingly over this gentleman from France. "Now, sir," said he, "whose messenger may you be, eh? "I'll not have any gentleman who has shown himself a friend to my ward, here, affronted by that rascal. |