CHAPTER V.

CONCERNS SOME FACTS The duty of Mr. Alexander Paton was to act under Seton Darville’s instructions when required. The declaration of the novelist that the matter was secret, even from his department, rather piqued him, and it certainly aroused his curiosity very keenly. “Yes, I repeat, Sandy, I can’t tell you the reason for all this hue and cry. I wish I could. You’d be as interested in it as I am,” Darville went on. “But, as you know, in my department, we sometimes have certain secrets which we do not disclose eve…