A strange couple they would
make, and strange would be their conversation!
Yet the tenement which had housed the old man's deranged spirit, empty as
now it was--aye, emptier than Duggle's tomb--was still to be witness of
one more earthly scene and unwittingly bear part in it.
CHAPTER XIII
RIGHT OF CONQUEST
What has been related of Mr. Saffron's life before he ascended the throne
on which he still sat in the Tower represented all that Beaumaroy knew of
his old friend before they met--indeed he knew scarcely as much. He told
the brief story to Doctor Mary in the parlor. She heard him listlessly;
all that was not much to the point on which her thoughts were set, and
did not answer the riddle which the scene in the Tower put to her. She
was calm now--and ashamed that she had ever lost her calmness.
"Well, there was the situation as I understood it when I took on the
job--or quite soon afterwards. He thought that he was being pursued; in a
sense he was. If these Radbolts found out the truth, they certainly would
pursue him, try to shut him up, and prevent him from making away with
his money or leaving it to anybody else.
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