"I want you just to sit up and
lose that unnatural look. I am not really full of cheap bravado, but
I am a philosopher. Something has happened to postpone--the end.
Good luck to it, I say!"
He raised his tumbler to his lips and set it down empty. Philippa
rose to her feet and walked restlessly to the window and back.
"I'll try and be reasonable too," she promised, resuming her seat.
"I was right, you see. Captain Griffiths has discovered everything.
Can you tell me what possible reason any one in London could have
had for interference?"
"I seem to have got a friend up there without knowing it, don't I?"
he observed.
"This is aging me terribly," Philippa declared, throwing herself
back into her seat. "All my life I have hated mysteries. Here I
am face to face with two absolutely insoluble ones. Captain
Griffiths has assured me that there is here in Dreymarsh something
of sufficient importance to account for the presence of a foreign
spy. You have confirmed it. I have been torturing my brain about
that for the last twenty-four hours. Now there happens something
more inexplicable still. You are arrested, and you are not
arrested. Your identity is known, and Captain Griffiths is forbidden
to do his duty."
"It seems puzzling, does it not?" Lessingham agreed. "I shouldn't
worry about the first, but this last little episode takes some
explaining.
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