9/28 He stopped so suddenly that a man walking behind him banged heavily against his back. The man walked on and turned round after he had passed to stare at Hillyard. For Hillyard stood stock still, he was unaware that any one had run into him, in all his body his lips alone moved. "Mario Escobar!" The man who had been so far the foremost in his thoughts during the last weeks that he never thought that he could have failed to recognise him. Millicent Splay's letter flashed back into his memory. |