It was chance alone which set you on the right track." "Well, there is my story, at any rate," Francis declared.

"With how much of your knowledge of the affair are you going to indulge me ?" Sir Timothy slowly revolved his brandy glass.
"Well," he said, "I will tell you this.

The two young men concerned, Bidlake and Fairfax, were both guests of mine recently at my country house.

They had discovered for one another a very fierce and reasonable antipathy.

With that recurrence to primitivism with which I have always been a hearty sympathiser, they agreed, instead of going round their little world making sneering remarks about each other, to fight it out." "At your suggestion, I presume ?" Francis interposed.
"Precisely," Sir Timothy assented.