But how did you know me ?" "I have been calling on Mortimer, and he pointed you out to me from the window of his surgery as you passed.

As our road lay the same way I thought that I would overtake you and introduce myself.

I trust that Sir Henry is none the worse for his journey ?" "He is very well, thank you." "We were all rather afraid that after the sad death of Sir Charles the new baronet might refuse to live here.

It is asking much of a wealthy man to come down and bury himself in a place of this kind, but I need not tell you that it means a very great deal to the countryside.

Sir Henry has, I suppose, no superstitious fears in the matter ?" "I do not think that it is likely." "Of course you know the legend of the fiend dog which haunts the family ?" "I have heard it." "It is extraordinary how credulous the peasants are about here! Any number of them are ready to swear that they have seen such a creature upon the moor." He spoke with a smile, but I seemed to read in his eyes that he took the matter more seriously.