Chapter FourThe Duke woke early and decided that he could not go on playing the invalid any longer.
He longed to be out in the fresh air and to take some strenuous exercise.
He had also decided during the night that he must investigate further what position Kane Horn held in the Dalbeth household and if possible extricate the Dowager Countess and Jane from his hold over them.
He was absolutely convinced that the man was up to no good. He was an adventurer to say the least of it and he was certainly trying to exploit the young heiress for his own ends.
The Duke suspected, although, of course, it was something he could not prove, that a large amount of anything Jane gave her stepmother would go straight into Kane Horn’s pocket.
‘It’s no use my sitting here isolated in The Castle,’ he sa
