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although this may have been just fancy, that I saw the same man watching me from the other side of the street when I went out this morning to go to church."

"This is rather serious. Do you know of anybody who had a grudge against you as well as against your husband?"

"Honestly, I can't think of anybody; you see, our lives have lain so far apart lately. No, I think it's probably just a coincidence; I was only going to suggest that, if I saw this man again, perhaps I might telephone to you?"

"Please do. Just send me word that you've seen him again and I'll come over straight in my car. Then perhaps we shall be able to have a better look at him."

Reeves drove away very thoughtful. Was it possible that the same enemy who had murdered her husband was on the widow's track too? Or was she psychic, and did echoes of the dead man's personality follow her? Certainly one might have expected Brotherhood to rest unquietly in his grave. His grave⁠—would some fresh inspiration come to Reeves, perhaps, if he paid a visit to the grave in Paston Oatvile churchyard? He was half ashamed of the thought, and yet⁠ . . . it could do no harm. The evening was a fine one; there was no need to be back early at the dormy-house. Instead of taking the London road, which was the shortest way home, he struck out along the winding country lane