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"
I made no answer, and I tried not to look at him by fixing my eyes upon
the sea.
"You have evidence enough, you know, and if you haven't there's
Price--she has plenty. So, since you've given me the right to speak for
you, dear, I'm going to speak to your father first"
I must have made some half-articulate response, for not understanding me
he said:
"Oh, I know he'll be a hard nut to crack. He won't want to hear what
I've got to say, but he has got to hear it. And after all you're his
daughter, and if he has any bowels of compassion . . ."
Again I must have made some effort to speak, for he said:
"Yes, he's ill, but he has only to set Curphy to work and the lawyer
will do the rest."
I could not allow him to go any further, so I blurted out somehow that I
had seen my father already.
"On this subject?"
"Yes."
"And what did he say?"
I told him as well as I could what my father had said, being ashamed to
repeat it.
"That was only bluff, though," said Martin. "The real truth is that you
would cease to be Lady Raa and that would be a blow to his pride.


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