LIEUTENANT SUTCH COMES OFF THE HALF-PAY LIST At the time when Calder, disappointed at his failure to obtain news of Feversham from the one man who possessed it, stepped into a carriage of the train at Assouan, Lieutenant Sutch was driving along a high white road of Hampshire across a common of heather and gorse; and he too was troubled on Harry Feversham's account.

Like many a man who lives much alone, Lieutenant Sutch had fallen into the habit of speaking his thoughts aloud.

And as he drove slowly and reluctantly forward, more than once he said to himself: "I foresaw there would be trouble.

From the beginning I foresaw there would be trouble." The ridge of hill along which he drove dipped suddenly to a hollow.
Sutch saw the road run steeply down in front of him between forests of pines to a little railway station.

The sight of the rails gleaming bright in the afternoon sunlight, and the telegraph poles running away in a straight line until they seemed to huddle together in the distance, increased Sutch's discomposure.