Chapter 26

"These are harsh words, Mr. Ross, they are so blunt that they bring a man standing up and arouse fresh suspicion in him. But I must go where the reason indicates. There may be another party of Miss Trelawney in him. And indeed, if it were not the other that made me thinking and raised her own suspicions of her, I wouldn't dream of mixing her up with this but I suspect Corbeck. Anyone else it is! Things cannot be taken without his complicity if what he says is true. If not - okay! He is a liar anyway, and I think it a bad business to keep him in the house with so many valuables, except that it will give me and my companion a chance to watch him, and we'll also keep a good watch, as I tell you he's in my room now, watching those lamps; But Johnny Wright is there too and I go on before he comes so there won't be much chance of guarding another house and of course, Mr. Ross, it's all also between you and me."

I said "It's okay! You can