At the side he found there was a well kept pathway and he was sure it would take him directly to the artificial lake.
Thinking over everything he had overheard, Michael realised that Cyril was being extremely astute in what he was planning.
He had intended to come directly from London to Grangemoore and there would only have been Mr. Barrett to warn him that things were not as he might have expected.
Even he would not have been aware of Cyril’s plot.
The old servants who had been loyal to his grandfather had all left in disgust or been sacked and there were only the women in the kitchen who he gathered had been there for some years.
But they had little knowledge of what they called ‘the front of the house’.
Finally there was just Mrs. Smithson who was indispensable if Cyril was to en
