5/30 In fact, I expect he'll turn out to be a most valuable ally. I shall see him to-morrow and try to enlist his sympathies for our Simpkins plot. I expect he'll simply jump at it." "I thought you said he'd gone." "He has gone from the hotel, but not from Ballymoy. He's at present staying with his niece." "I didn't know he had a niece." "Miss King, or, to be quite accurate, Mrs.Lorimer, is his niece, and he's staying with her." Major Kent started and laid down his teacup. |