Jaffery stood with folded arms holding the bowl of his pipe in one hand and looked down on Mr.Fendihook as on some puzzling insect.
"Do you mind if I take off my gloves ?" our strange visitor asked.
"Pray do," said I.The sight of the fellow wandering about a garden bareheaded and gloved in yellow chamois leather had begun to affect my nerves.

He peeled them off.
"Look here, Gwendoline Arabella, my dear," he cried.

"Catch!" He made a feint of throwing them.
"Haven't you caught 'em ?" "No." She stared at the man open-mouthed, for behold, his hands were empty.
"Tut, tut!" said he.

"Perhaps you can catch a handkerchief." He flicked a red silk handkerchief from his pocket, crumpled it into a ball and threw; but like the gloves it vanished.

"Now where has it gone to ?" Susan, who had shrunk beneath Jaffery's protecting shadow, crept forward fascinated.