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Glancing at Fyne out of the corner of one eye I discovered that he was

attentive He made the remark that I should have said all this to his

wife It was a sensible enough reiven Mrs Fyne up I

asked him if his impression was that his wife meant to entrust him with a

letter for her brother?

No He didn't think so There were certain reasons which uments to paper Fyne was to be primed with

them But he had no doubt that if he persisted in his refusal she would

o unless with a full conviction that she is

right," said Fyne sole," I commented And then I reflected that she was

used to it "Would nothing less do for once?"

"You don't ive way--do you?" asked Fyne in a whisper

of alarmed suspicion

As this was exactly what I eted If the word led

And when the horrid suspicion had descended into his very heels, so to

speak, he beca stonily into space bounded by

the yellow, burnt-up slopes of the rising ground a couple of miles away

The face of the down showed the white scar of the quarry where notin the dark with

horrible apprehension of finding under our hands the shattered body of a

girl Forwith her

She was certainly walking very near the edge--courting a sinister

solution But, now, having by the most unexpected chance come upon a