He looked at him and enquired,
“Would you agree to this, Vicar? I feel that I am asking a lot of you, but there is no one else I can turn to for help.”
There was a short pause before the Vicar replied,
“The most important issue, my Lord, is for you to save Charles. I was always afraid as he was so adventurous that he would get into trouble. But Isa thinks, as I do, that this is a frightening situation and there is always a chance, even if he gives his associates all the information they want, that they will make absolutely certain that under no circumstances will he be able to give any evidence against them.”
“What you are really saying to me,” Lord Lanwood probed, “is that, having learnt everything they can from him, they will then dispose of him.”
“That is always possible where thos
