"Oh! Selina's my old nurse. What are you doing here, Selina? I never
expected you to turn kidnapper at your age!"
"Nothing of the kind, Master Tinker! I'm paid to help save these poor
lambs from them Popish Jesuits, and I'm going to do it!"
"Let's hear about this," said Tinker, sitting down on the table.
"It's my poor husband's cousin, Mr. Alexander McNeill. He engaged me
to come here to act as maid to a young lady he was helping get away
from those Jesuits who were trying to force her into a convent to get
her money," said Selina.
"You've been humbugged, then. What you are doing is helping to kidnap
my adopted sister Elsie, and Miss Dorothy Rainer, the daughter of an
American millionaire," said Tinker joyfully.
Dorothy started and flushed. "How did you learn that?" she said
quickly.
"Your father's come from America, and he and my father are looking for
you, though where they are there's no saying. I left them at
Ventimiglia arrested as spies," said Tinker.
"Arrested as spies?" cried Dorothy.
But Selina, whose face had undergone a slow but violent change, broke
in, "So Alexander's humbugged me, has he? He's brought me all the way
from Paris here by a lie about Jesuits having tried to bury this young
lady in one of their nasty convents, to do his dirty kidnapping work,
has he? I'll kidnap him! I'll teach him to play these tricks on me!"
"Do!" said Tinker with warm approval.
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