18/29 I suppose the cut is visible still? "The mark is there right enough. Queer how inanimate objects like a rose-tree can make mischief. I remember a case in which a chestnut in a man's pocket sent him to penal servitude. There was absolutely no evidence against him, except a possible motive, until that chestnut was found and proved to be one of a particular species, grown only in a certain locality." "How fortunate that the Dorothy Perkins is popular!" laughed Grant. |