His sister's children are the owners of Green Fancy. I know her well.
It was through Mr. O'Dowd that I came to Green Fancy. Too late he
realised that it was a mistake. He was deceived. He has known me for
years and he would not have exposed me to----But come! As he has said,
we are not yet out of the woods."
"I cannot, for the life of me, see why they took chances on inviting
me to the house, Miss Cameron. They must have known that--"
"It was a desperate chance but it was carefully considered, you may be
sure. They are clever, all of them. They were afraid of you. It was
necessary to deal openly, boldly, with you if your suspicions were to
be removed."
"But they must have known that you would appeal to me."
She was silent for a moment, and when she spoke it was with great
intensity. "Mr. Barnes, I had your life in my hands all the time you
were at Green Fancy. It was I who took the desperate chance. I shudder
now when I think of what might have happened. Before you were asked to
the house, I was coolly informed that you would not leave it alive if
I so much as breathed a word to you concerning my unhappy plight. The
first word of an appeal to you would have been the signal for--for
your death.
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