Then the fairies, shocked at the ways of men, abandoned the fairy mill forever.
He braced himself for the usual shaft of insolence, in a mood for battle.

It did not come.

Adam had fallen forward in his chair unconscious.

Kenny rang for Hughie and stared at the huddled figure in the wheel-chair with eyes of new suspicion.

Adam Craig, he remembered, with a sharp unbridled instinct for adding two and two, was a miser and he hated the children of his widowed sister.