The funeral has not been over much more than a week.

The property is perfectly safe, you know." "Of course; but it is not the less extraordinary that Mr.Holbrook should hang back in this manner.

I will go down to Hampshire the first thing to-morrow and see Mrs.Holbrook." "Humph!" muttered the lawyer; "I can't say that I see any necessity for that.

But of course you know best." Gilbert Fenton did start for Hampshire early the next morning by the same train in which Marian had travelled after her grandfather's death.

It was still quite early in the day when he found himself at Malsham, that quiet comfortable little market-town where he had first discovered a clue to the abode of his lost love.