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As she made her signalling movement towards Blick, Daffy retreated a pace or two within the thick shrubbery, and the expression in her eyes indicated a desire for secrecy and caution. Blick, in his turn, signed to his companion to follow him, and whispered an aside as they left the road and passed through the wicket-gate.
"This is one of the women I told you of," he murmured. "Mrs. Tretheroe's maid-Daphne Halliwell, sister of the girl Myra Halliwell, who married Guy Markenmore. She's therefore aunt to the new baronet! -and as deep as they make 'em. Come with me-I'll let her think you're an assistant of mine."