"It'll take us a good hour and a quarter as it is.

Of course," he went on, as they moved away through the Norcaster streets, "of course, you haven't any notion of what this urgent business is ?" "None whatever!" replied Vickers.

"But I'm quite sure that it is urgent, or Miss Greyle wouldn't have said so.

No--I don't know what her exact meaning was, but of course, I know there's something wrong about the whole thing at Scarhaven--seriously wrong!" "You do, eh ?" exclaimed Copplestone.

"What now ?" "Ah, that I don't know!" replied Vickers, with a dry laugh.