CHAPTER VIIIThe Great Secret
JOHN LUX stumbled away from the salon, his mind a seething chaos of unanswered questions. Into the central foyer of the house, from which all rooms branched, he went swiftly, in confusion.
If the Lady Lis actually was, and had been all the while, his enemy, then he was in deadly danger every moment he remained in the house of her confederate. That Havering, too, was a denizen of the future was a revelation whose implications his mind could not yet fully grasp. But it was rapidly becoming clear that he had been misinformed all this while as to the true identity of his foes: it would seem the Arcadians of the distant future had been out to destroy him all along, and not the mysterious personage Malaire, whom he had yet to encounter.
Or could it be that both Ma
