131/190 If I employ Mr.Havill to compete with you I will offer him a similar one.' Somerset did not decline; and she added, 'In the same room you will find the handkerchief that was left on the tower.' 'Ah, I saw that it was gone. Somebody brought it down ?' 'I did,' she shyly remarked, looking up for a second under her shady hat-brim. I went up last night to see where the accident happened, and there I found it. When you came up were you in search of it, or did you want me ?' 'Then she saw me,' he thought. 'I went for the handkerchief only; I was not aware that you were there,' he answered simply. |