Then "I am so glad you were in time to be with father," I said.
"Thank you," he replied. "I think I was of use to him, though he had
done excellently. Got the deposition fully drawn out, signed and
witnessed, so that there was scarcely anything for me to do at
Liverpool, and therefore, armed with my full credentials, I hurried off
to Millflowers, where _my_ father met me. But as to this part of it,
Mr Fitzmaurice and I must tell it to you together, more at leisure,"
for just then the servant came into the room with the breakfast trays.
"Only one word," I said eagerly. "It went off well? And that poor
Caryll?"
"Wonderfully well. You would scarcely believe how wise and tender my
father was."
Dad joined us at breakfast, declaring he was not tired at all, and as
soon as it was over, we three adjoined to his own den, where I learnt
for the first time the details of the Grim House mystery.
Perhaps it will be best that I should give it in simple narrative style,
though, as can readily be imagined, the story related to me was not
uninterrupted by a good many questions on my aide.