CHAPTER XLI 

THE COLONEL SPEAKS 

Wrayson glanced at the clock for the twentieth time. 

"I am afraid," he said gravely, "that Mr. Sydney Barnes has been one too many for us." 

"Do you think," Louise asked, "that he has persuaded the girl to give him the packet?" 

"It looks like it," Wrayson confessed. 

Louise frowned. 

"Of course," she said, "I think that you were mad to let her go before. She had the letters here in the room. You would have been perfectly justified in taking them from her." 

"I suppose so," Wrayson assented, doubtfully. "Somehow she seemed to get the upper hand of us towards the end. I think she suspected that some of us knew more than we cared to tell her about--her husband's death." 

Louise shivered a little and remained silent. Wrayson walked to the window and back. 

"To tell you the truth," he said, "I expected some one else here to-night who has failed to turn up." 

"Who is that?" the Baroness asked. 

Wrayson hesitated for a moment and glanced towards Louise. 

"Colonel Fitzmaurice," he said. 

Louise seemed to turn suddenly rigid. She looked at him steadfastly for a moment without speaking. 

"My father," she murmured at last. 

Wrayson nodded. 

"Yes!" he said. 

"But--what has he to do with this?" Louise asked, with her eyes fixed anxiously, almost fearfully, upon his. 

"I went to him for advice," Wrayson said quietly. "He has been always very kind, and I thought it possible that he might be able to help us. He promised to be here at the same hour as the others. Listen! There is the bell at last."  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Who wants to know what time it is?
2. Who is looking at the time?
3. Who is verifying the hour?
Q2:
1. Who is Wrayson with?
2. Who is in Wrayson's company?
3. Who is alongside Wrayson?
Q3:
1. Who is Wrayson waiting for?
2. Who is supposed to meet Wrayson?
3. Who does Wrayson have a meeting with?
Q4:
1. Is Colonel Fitzmaurice related to Louisa?
2. Is there a familial relationship between Colonel Fitzmaurice and Louisa?
3. Are Colonel Fitzmaurice and Louisa from the same family?
Q5:
1. How are Colonel Fitzmaurice and Louisa related?
2. What is the relation of Colonel Fitzmaurice to Louisa?
3. What family member is Colonel Fitzmaurice to Louisa?
Q6:
1. Who is mentioned besides Colonel Fitzmaurice?
2. Who other than Colonel Fitzmaurice is talked about?
3. Who gets discussed in addition to Colonel Fitzmaurice?
Q7:
1. What does the couple think Mr. Sydney Barnes has done?
2. What may Mr. Sydney Barnes have done?
3. What is Mr. Sydney Barnes thought to have done?
Q8:
1. What may Mr. Sydney Barnes have persuaded the girl to do?
2. What may the girl have done under Mr. Sydney Barnes' persuasion?
3. What might Mr. Sydney Barnes have gotten the girl to do?
Q9:
1. What was in the packet?
2. What did the packet have inside it?
3. What were the packet's contents?
Q10:
1. Where had the letters been kept?
2. What had been the location of the letters?
3. Where were the letters being stored?
Q11:
1. What were the girl's thoughts?
2. How did the girl feel?
3. What was the girl's opinion of things?
Q12:
1. What did the girl think more was known about?
2. On what subject did the girl believe there was more information?
3. What was there more to know about according to the girl?
Q13:
1. Why was Colonel Fitzmaurice invited?
2. Why had an invitation been given to Colonel Fitzmaurice?
3. Why was Colonel Fitzmaurice told to come?
Q14:
1. When was Colonel Fitzmaurice supposed to come?
2. When was Colonel Fitzmaurice's arrival to happen?
3. At what point was Colonel Fitzmaurice meant to arrive?
