25/27 He scratched his head in a meditative way for some moments. William Carley has been bailiff at the Grange these twenty years, and I don't believe as the owner has ever come nigh the place in all that time. Let me see,--it's a common name enough, though the gentleman is a baronight. Forster--that's it--Sir something Forster." "Sir David ?" cried Gilbert. Sir David Forster--that's the gentleman." Sir David Forster! He had little doubt after this that the strangers at the Grange had been Marian and her husband. |