See Tallington as soon as you get back." "I daresay you're right," admitted Stoner.

"But--I know M.& C, and I know they'd give--aye, half of what they're worth--and that's a lot!--to have this kept dark." That thought was with him whenever he woke in the night, and as he strolled round Darlington next morning, it was still with him when, after an early dinner, he set off homeward by an early afternoon train which carried him to High Gill junction; whence he had to walk five miles across the moors and hills to Highmarket.

And he was still pondering it weightily when, in one of the loneliest parts of the solitudes which he was crossing, he turning the corner of a little pine wood, and came face to face with Mallalieu..