Could she have thoroughly trusted the
servant she would have denied herself at the last moment, but she feared
that she might be betrayed, and she thought that her position would be
rendered even worse than it was at present by a futile attempt. She was
sitting alone, pale, haggard, trembling, when Major Mackintosh was shown
into her room. It may be as well explained at once, at this moment; the
major knew, or thought that he knew, every circumstance of the two
robberies, and that his surmises were, in every respect, right. Miss
Crabstick and Mr. Cann were in comfortable quarters, and were prepared to
tell all that they could tell. Mr. Smiler was in durance, and Mr. Benjamin
was at Vienna, in the hands of the Austrian police, who were prepared to
give him up to those who desired his society in England, on the completion
of certain legal formalities. That Mr. Benjamin and Mr. Smiler would be
prosecuted, the latter for the robbery and the former for conspiracy to
rob, and for receiving stolen goods, was a matter of course. But what was
to be done with Lady Eustace? That, at the present moment, was the
prevailing trouble with the police.
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