I will have a car round and take you to the spot." The Professor acquiesced readily, and very soon they stepped out of the automobile on to the side of a narrow road, looking very much as it had been described.

Further on, beyond a stretch of open common, they could see the smoke from the gipsy encampment.

On their left-hand side was a stretch of absolutely wild country, bounded in the far distance by the grey stone wall of the park.

Lord Ashleigh led the way through the thicket, talking as he went.
"Craig came along through here," he explained.

"The groom and the Scotland Yard man who had been sitting by his side followed him.