She told you all she knew, and so did Barker here; for on the night when this thing happened there was mighty little time for explanations.

She knows everything now, and I would have been a wiser man if I had told her sooner.

But it was a hard question, dear," he took her hand for an instant in his own, "and I acted for the best.
"Well, gentlemen, the day before these happenings I was over in Tunbridge Wells, and I got a glimpse of a man in the street.

It was only a glimpse; but I have a quick eye for these things, and I never doubted who it was.

It was the worst enemy I had among them all--one who has been after me like a hungry wolf after a caribou all these years.