“Did you know that the cave was beside water?”
“No. How could I?”
“I thought perhaps you might have read my thoughts.”
“I have tried not to ever since I first met you.”
“But last night you felt capable of doing so?”
She did not reply and after a moment’s silence he said,
“I want you to answer my question.”
“Why?” Tula enquired. “I have found out for you what you want to know, where the cave is situated.”
“I would have told you if you had asked me.”
There was undoubtedly a mocking smile on her lips as she then replied,
“I thought you were testing me.”
Because this was true, there was nothing that Lord Yelverton could say in reply.
After a moment he said in a voice that held an undoubted note of irritation,
“I dislike superstitions of all sorts and I most certainly don’t believe
