"They!"
"Well, no matter what that impends—to quote your note—I am grateful to them for this at any rate. But how did they come to tell you I was here?" he asked. "And how did you know they had been following me, Miss Varris?"
"Because they have been following us, too."
"You?"
"Yes; but only to try to trace you. We were unable to help them, but when they finally found where you were, they were good enough to let us know."
"Which was really most fortunate, Mr. Preston," Mrs. Varris repeated, "as indeed I should not have liked to leave England without knowing what were to be the consequences of that trouble we brought you into at Ely."
"But you brought me into no trouble, Mrs. Varris. As I told you that morning, I was already suspected."
"It is very good of you to say that, Mr. Preston; but you know, as we do, that before
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