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There was no possibility of any estion seemed to have taken the healthy sunburn from their cheeks They fumbled with their sticks uneasily One of them touched his hat and spoke to Dominey

"I'm one as 'as seen it, sir, as well as heard," he said "I'd sooner give up h the place"

Caroline suddenly passed her arh Dominey's There was a note of distress in her tone

"Henry, you're an idiot!" she exclaimed "It was my fault, Everard I'ht to have stopped Henry at once The poor man has no memory"

Doers Then he turned to the beaters

"Well, no one is going to ask you to go to the Black Wood," he pro them into the roots and then over into the park We will line the park fence How is that, Middleton?"

The keeper touched his hat and stepped briskly off

"I'll just have a ith them myself, sir," he said "Them birds do break at Fuller's corner I'll see if I can flank theuns, Squire"

Do with most unaccustomed speed towards their destination Their backs were towards the Black Wood Terniloff came up to his host

"Have I, by chance, been terribly tactless?" he asked

Dominey shook his head

"You asked a perfectly natural question, Prince," he replied "There is no reason why you should not know the truth Near that wood occurred the tragedy which drove rieved," the Prince began-"It is false sentiment to avoid allusions to it," Doht by a ht, and I reached ho state My condition terrified my wife so much that she has been an invalid ever since But here is the point which has given birth to all these superstitions, and which made ht has never been seen since"

Terniloff was at once too fascinated by the story and puzzled by his host's etic attitude