6/8 "You ought to be a fortune teller." "This settles the matter," he said, in the cab on the way back. "Find out the first train for Tavistock in the morning and wire the George Hotel to have a car waiting." "Why not go to-night ?" suggested the other. It is rather slow, but it will get you there by six or seven in the morning." "Too late," he said, "unless you can invent a method of getting from here to Paddington in about fifty seconds." The morning journey to Devonshire was a dispiriting one despite the fineness of the day. T.X.had an uncomfortable sense that something distressing had happened. |