Page 58 (2/2)

that she was not at all surprised to hear it Miss Batchelor never was

surprised at anything She refused to take a part, to commit herself

to a definite opinion Huenerally faults on both sides Mrs Nevill Tyson had

been--certainly--very--indiscreet It was indiscreet of her to go on

living in that flat all by herself Did Miss Batchelor think there was

anything in that report about Captain Stanistreet? Well, if there wasn't

soht she would have co in town looked bad under the circumstances

Poor Mrs Nevill Tyson, every circumstance made a link in a chain of

evidence whose ends were nowhere

And, indeed, she was not left very long to herself

But though Stanistreet was always hanging about Ridg the problem that had perplexed hie; he was not the same man who had

discussed Molly Wilcox in the billiard-roo he noticed which was new Mrs Nevill Tyson was not

literary; but whenever he called now he always found her sitting with

some book in her hand, which she instantly hid behind the cushions of her

chair Stanistreet unearthed three of these volumes one day They were

"Barrack-Room Ballads," "With Gordon in the Soudan," "India: What it can

Teach Us"--a work, if you please, on Vedic philosophy, annotated in

pencil by Tyson Now Stanistreet had brought "Barrack-Room Ballads"

into the house; Stanistreet had been with Gordon, in the Soudan;

Stanistreet--no, Stanistreet had not been in India; but he ht have

been He was i her mind Poor little soul, how bored she must have been!