The nausea passed after a moment and she managed to get up and make her
way to the bathroom. As she bathed her face, memory returned, full
memory of the events of the previous night, the scene upon the cliffs,
with Cyril, the destroyer, Rizzio, Stryker, Rudha Mor, the Yellow
Dove and then unconsciousness. Chloroform! There were vestiges of it
upon her clothing still. They had drugged her. When she took off her
shirtwaist something fell to the floor. A paper. She picked it up and
looked at it. It was Rizzio’s note to her at Kilmorack House asking
her to come to Ben-a-Chielt--so that he might make her prisoner! She
remembered now that she had thrust it into her waist when she went out.
She folded the letter carefully and put it in her stays. After the
other indignity she had suffered, it seemed strange that they had not
searched her, too. She would keep the letter. Perhaps later she would
find use for it.
John Rizzio! It was difficult for her mind to associate him with the
villainy of abduction. And yet, as her brain grew clearer, she became
quite sure that there was no other answer to the problem. Indeed, from
the replies of the stewardess she knew that John Rizzio had chosen that
she should know it was to be a problem no longer. The _Sylph_, that was
his yacht. She had been on the boat before, two years ago, during the
races in the Solent. Abduction! He had dared! She was not frightened
yet. Fury at his temerity blinded her to all sense of danger. A phrase
of Cyril’s came back to her, illuminating the chaos of her thoughts.
“You know too much--too much for your own good--or mine.” Cyril’s
cigarette papers! She was the only one beside Cyril who had read their
contents! Rizzio had carried her off, had brought her to the _Sylph_,
which was out of sight of land, speeding for--Germany! What was he
going to do with her?
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