I then ran round the field, sheltered from observation by the corn, which, as you know, was then high, and I got out at the further side.

I walked to Keighley, the next place to Rexton, and took a cab home.

I went straight to bed, and did not see Basil till the next morning.

He told me he had come home later, but he did not say where he had been, nor did I ask him." "But I am sure--unless my watch was wrong, that I climbed the wall at a quarter past ten," insisted Mallow.
"You might have climbed it again at a quarter to eleven." "No! I climbed it only once.

Which way did I come ?" "Along the path from the station.