his eyes under
the lamplight."

There was a pause while Bendigo slowly took in this change in the
situation. Then he lifted his voice and spoke, not to Doria, but to
the man in hiding.

"Come right out, Brendon," he said. "The game's up for to-night as
you've heard. Doria has seen Bob, and he's frightened the poor
beggar off apparently. Anyway he's not coming."

Mark emerged and Giuseppe gazed in astonishment. His mind evidently
ran backward and his face flushed with annoyance.

"Corpo di Bacco!" he swore. "Then you heard my confidences. You are
a sneak!"

"Stow that," cried Bendigo. "Brendon's here because I wished it for
my brother's good. I wanted him to know what passed--and your love
affairs are neither here nor there. He'll not use anything he heard
that don't concern his proper business. What did Robert say?"

But Doria was angry. He opened his mouth to speak, then shut it
again, looked first at Brendon and then at his master and breathed
hard.

"Get on," said Bendigo. "Shall I go out to the man, or has he gone?"

"And as for me; don't think twice about it," added Brendon. "I'm
here for one reason only, and that you know. You and your private
hopes and ambitions have nothing to do with me."

Upon this speech the Italian appeared to regain his composure.

"I am a servant for the moment and my duty is to Mr. Redmayne," he
answered. "This is the message that I have been told to bring. The
hunted man will not trust himself behind doors or under a roof,
until he has seen his brother alone. He is hiding now near the place
where Mrs. Pendean and I found him, in a cave beside the sea. It
opens upon the water and it can be approached by boat. But there is
a way also inside, that enables him to creep down into the cave from
the cliffs behind it. He will be in this place until his brother
comes, to-morrow night after twelve o'clock. But the way down from
the land is hidden very carefully and he will not speak of that. You
must go to him from the sea, my master. He thought it out while he
spoke to me. He will light his lamp in the cave, and when the light
is seen from the launch, you will put in and come to him. That is
what he demands shall be done; and if anybody tries to land but only
his brother, he will shoot them. So he swears, and he said also that
when Bendigo Redmayne knows all, then he will forgive all and be on
his side."

"Did he talk like a sane man?" asked Brendon.

"He talked like a sane man;