But my point is that the judge, puzzled by an extraordinary combination of circumstances, all tending to make him uncomfortable, would naturally think Miss King was at the bottom of them.

The one thing I don't quite understand is how he came to know she was in Ballymoy.

I'll find that out later on.

In the meanwhile I think I'd better go into Ballymoy after all.

It's a nuisance, for I was extremely comfortable on the yacht, but I can't leave things in the muddle they're in now, and there's nobody else about the place I could trust to clear them up.".