CHAPTER XXIV.
NIDDON PARK.
As Hugh Stanbury went over to Lessboro', and from thence to Nuncombe Putney, he thought more of himself and Nora Rowley than he did of Mr.
and Mrs.Trevelyan.As to Mrs.Trevelyan and Colonel Osborne, he felt that he knew everything that it was necessary that he should know.
The man had been there, and had seen Mrs.Trevelyan.Of that there could be no doubt.

That Colonel Osborne had been wickedly indifferent to the evil consequences of such a visit, and that all the women concerned had been most foolish in permitting him to make it, was his present conviction.

But he did not for a moment doubt that the visit had in itself been of all things the most innocent.

Trevelyan had sworn that if his wife received the man at Nuncombe Putney, he would never see her again.

She had seen him, and this oath would be remembered, and there would be increased difficulties.