You went to Chitipur, I know.
From your presence here I know too that you found--them--there." "No," said Thresk, "I didn't." He sat down and looked straight into Jane Repton's eyes.

"I had a stroke of luck.

I found them--in camp." Jane Repton understood all that the last two words implied.
"I should have wished that," she answered, "if I had dared to think it possible.

You talked with Stella ?" "Hardly a word alone.

But I saw." "What did you see ?" "I am here to tell you." And he told her the story of his night at the camp so far as it concerned Stella Ballantyne, and indeed not quite all of that.