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"I confess that I can't understand his motive," I exclaimed

"This is exactly what John wondered at, at first," said Mrs Fyne By

that ti up between

us which permitted her in this discussion to refer to her husband as

John "You know he had not opened his lips all that time," she pursued

"I don't blame his restraint On the contrary What could he have said?

I could see he was observing the htfully"

"And so, Mr Fyne listened, observed and meditated," I said "That's an

excellent way of co to a conclusion And ed to arrive? On what ground did he cease to

wonder at the inexplicable? For I can't admit humanity to be the

explanation It would be tooof the sort, Mrs Fyne assured h I had aspersed little Fyne's sanity Fyne very sensibly had set

hi the self-interest I should not

have thought him capable of so much cynicisious fears or the vanity of righteousness