Edgar Wallace

“ Her lips were quivering.
"That is the truth," she said at last. "The horror of it was that he did not recognise me when he came to Larmes Keep. I had passed completely from his mind until I revealed myself in the garden that night." ”

“ Ravini was a very quick-witted man and recognised me. He came to Larmes Keep because he"—she hesitated—"well, he was rather fond of Miss Belman. He told me this, and I was rather amused. At that time I did not know his name, although my husband did, and I certainly did not connect him with my father's arrest. He revealed his identity, and I suppose there was something in my attitude, or something I said, which recalled the schoolgirl he had met years before. The moment he recognised me as John Flack's daughter, he also recognised Larmes Keep as my father's headquarters. ”

“ And of course I was horrified, for I knew why Daver had allowed him to come.
"My father had recently escaped from Broadmoor, and I was worried sick for fear he knew the trick that Daver had played. I wasn't normal, I suppose, and I came near to betraying my father, for I told Ravini of his escape. Ravini did not take this as I had expected; he rather overrated his own power, and was very confident. Of course, he did not know that father was practically in the house, that he came up from the cave every night——"
"The real entrance to the cave was through the safe in the vestibule?" said Mr. ”