“I don’t believe it!” Cara exclaimed incredulously.
“That’s what he told the Master. They’ve got it all planned out.”
Cara was silent for a moment.
Then she asked Emily,
“Where does Mr. Thistlewood live?”
“Albert doesn’t know that. He meets those he leads in a stable yard in Cato Street.”
“Where is that?” Cara enquired.
“Somewhere off the Edgware Road and Albert heard them say they’ve all sorts of weapons there and their revolution when it does start’ll be a big one!”
Cara shivered.
It was, she felt, just the sort of intrigue that her uncle would enjoy.
However it seemed impossible to believe that he would really plot with revolutionaries to overthrow the Government or even to make serious trouble.
She had read in the newspapers what was happening in the North.
She knew that la
