7/34 A tin box for botanical specimens hung over his shoulder and he carried a green butterfly-net in one of his hands. "Here on the moor we are homely folk and do not wait for formal introductions. You may possibly have heard my name from our mutual friend, Mortimer. I am Stapleton, of Merripit House." "Your net and box would have told me as much," said I, "for I knew that Mr.Stapleton was a naturalist. But how did you know me ?" "I have been calling on Mortimer, and he pointed you out to me from the window of his surgery as you passed. |