They did not appear to be at
all alarmed at the shortening time, but said everything depended upon the
men Longworth was going to bring with him. If they were the right men,
there would be no trouble. So, all in all, they advised me not to worry
about it, but to communicate with Longworth, if I could, and get him to
come as soon as possible. I had to admit myself that this was the only
thing to do, so I called round to see if you had heard anything from
him.'
'I have heard nothing about him,' said Kenyon, 'except that he has lied,
and has gone to Paris instead of going North.'
'Well,' mused Wentworth, 'I don't know that that is a very important
point. He may have business in Paris, and he may have thought it was no
affair of ours where he went, in which he was partly right and partly
wrong. He thought, no doubt, that if he said he was going North, to see
some men who could not be seen without his going there, it would relieve
our minds, and make us imagine we were going on all right.'
'That is just what I object to, Wentworth. His whole demeanour seems to
show that he wants us to think things are all right when they are not
all right.'
'Well, John, as I said before, you've got to do one thing or the other.
You have to trust Longworth or to go on without him. Now, for Heaven's
sake make up your mind which it is to be, and don't grumble.'
'I am not grumbling. A man that is really honest will not say what is
false, even about a small thing.
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