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Coether as

far as Charing Cross

"Yes," said Tyson, "the thing's done now I'lorious devils--and wethis time

It's the old field, you see, and the old eneht See me off?"

"Yes It's the least I can do"

"Thanks, Stanny" He -stick "Don't

you wish you'd half et a chance By Jove!

if I'd only stuck to mine!"

They parted Not a word of his wife

Stanistreet looked back over his shoulder as Tyson crossed Trafalgar

Square with the bold swinging step of a freewas the worst of it It had to be done in silence and a

guilty secrecy, for Molly was in bed again, suffering from a sort of

nervous relapse Up to the last day Tyson retched, haunted by the

fear of soht still happen and destroy his

plans By way of guarding against it he had stuck the Steao That seemed to make his decision

irrevocable whatever happened But he would not be safe till he felt

water under him