It might go hard with him should an
attempt be made to force him to name another cause. He knew that he would
lack the courage to tell the lady that he had heard from his sister that
one Andy Gowran had witnessed a terrible scene down among the rocks at
Portray. So he sat silent, and made no answer to Lizzie's first assertion
respecting the diamonds.
But the necklace was her strong point, and she did not intend that he
should escape the subject. "If I remember right, Lord Fawn, you yourself
saw that wretched old attorney once or twice on the subject?"
"I did see Mr. Camperdown, certainly. He is my own family lawyer."
"You were kind enough to interest yourself about the diamonds--were you
not?" She asked him this as a question, and then waited for a reply. "Was
it not so?"
"Yes, Lady Eustace; it was so."
"They were of great value, and it was natural," continued "Lizzie. "Of
course you interested yourself. Mr. Camperdown was full of awful threats
against me--was he not? I don't know what he was not going to do. He
stopped me in the street as I was driving to the station in my own
carriage, when the diamonds were with me; which was a very strong measure,
I think.
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