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Nexta rumor set out from three distinct centers, Thorneytoft,

Meriden, and "The Cross-Roads," to the effect that Tyson had quarreled

seriously with Stanistreet His wife, as ined, was the

cause After a hot dispute, in which her name had been rather freely

bandied about, it seems that Tyson had picked the Captain up by the

scruff of the neck and tu the scandal was blazing like a fire

Mrs Nevill Tyson was undoubtedly a benefactor to her sence of Drayton Parva as it had never been roused

before Conjecture followed furtively on her footsteps, and inference met

her and stared her in the face No circumstance, not even Sir Peter's

innocent admiration, was too trivial to furnish a link in the chain of

evidence against her Not that a breath of slander touched Sir Peter He,

poor old soul, was siarded as the victim of diabolical

fascinations

After the discomfiture of Stanistreet, Mrs Nevill Tyson's movements were

watched with redoubled interest Her appearances were now strictly

liht be considered open

events--Drayton races, church, the hunt ball, and so on Only the casual

stranger, languishing in nificent boredom by Miss Batchelor's side,

followed Mrs Nevill Tyson with a kindly eye

"Who is that pretty little woown?" he would ask in his

innocence