"Now I'll reply to you," he went on.

"My answer's in one word, too.

Yes!" Tallington opened Kitely's scrap-book at the account of the trial at Wilchester, placed it before Cotherstone, and indicated certain lines with the point of a pencil.
"You're the Chidforth mentioned there ?" he asked quietly.

"And your partner's the Mallows ?" "That's so," replied Cotherstone, so imperturbably that all three looked at him in astonishment "That's quite so, Mr.Tallington." "And this is an accurate report of what happened ?" asked Tallington, trailing the pencil over the newspaper.

"That is, as far as you can see at a glance ?" "Oh, I daresay it is," said Cotherstone, airily.