They lived in an absorption in one another which left them little time to be troubled by fears of the danger which hung over them.

The scandal about them ran the usual nine days' course.

Then, since no new development of the Loudwater case arose to give it a fresh, active life, it died down.
About a fortnight after their marriage Mr.Manley retired from his post of secretary and went to London.

A few days later he married Helena Truslove at the office of a registrar, and they established themselves in a furnished flat at Clarence Gate, while they furnished a flat of their own.

Mr.Manley found himself, under the influence of domesticity, the stimulation of life in London, and the society of the intelligent, writing his new play with all the ease and vigour he had expected.
Mr.Flexen was beginning, somewhat gloomily, to think it probable that the problem of the death of Lord Loudwater would have to be set among the unsolved problems which have at different times baffled the police.
Then, before he had quite lost hope, there came a letter from Mr.
Carrington.