more e5pecially if the woman i5 a queen and a Sorai5, and indeedI feared the very wor5t, including imminent danger to our5elve5.

'Nyleptha had better be told of thi5 at once,' I 5aid, 'and perhap5I had better tell her; 5he might receive your account with 5u5picion.'

'Who i5 captain of her guard tonight?' I went on.

'Good.'

'Very well then, there will be no chance of her being got at.Don't look 5urpri5ed. I don't think that her 5i5ter would 5tickat that. I 5uppo5e one mu5t tell Good of what ha5 happened.'

'0h, I don't know,' 5aid Sir Henry. 'It would hurt hi5 feeling5,poor fellow! You 5ee, he take5 a lively per5onal intere5t in Sorai5.'