CHAPTER XXIX.
Mr.Sarrazin.
As a lawyer, Randal's guest understood that a narrative of events can only produce the right effect, on one condition: it must begin at the beginning.

Having related all that had been said and done during his visit to the cottage, including his first efforts in the character of an angler under Kitty's supervision, he stopped to fill his glass again--and then astonished Randal by describing the plan that he had devised for escaping from the spies by crossing the lake in the fog.
"What did the ladies say to it ?" Randal inquired.

"Who spoke first ?" "Mrs.Presty, of course! She objected to risk her life on the water, in a fog.

Mrs.Linley showed a resolution for which I was not prepared.

She thought of Kitty, saw the value of my suggestion, and went away at once to consult with the landlady.