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"Oh, leave all that to me. I'll calm his fevered brow. I told you yesterday there were one or two little things I wanted Marryatt to explain, and you wouldn't let me. This time, I'm going to have it my own way."

"It's awfully good of you if you⁠ . . . Oh, Lord, right over the green, as usual⁠ . . . But, I say, tell me about Davenant. How did you hear?"

"The head waiter was the source of the information, but I gather it is on good authority. According to the gossip of Binver, the police were trying to incriminate your friend Miss Rendall-Smith, and that's how they got Davenant to own up. Dirty dodge, rather, I think."

"Trying to incriminate her? Then, of course, it was the police who were shadowing her! She told me yesterday she thought she was being watched."

"That would be it, I suppose."

"But then, how did Davenant explain all the things that have been puzzling us all this time?"

"I don't think he's been interviewed by the Daily Mail yet. But if you mean how he explained the difficulty about the two trains, that's very simple. It wasn't done from a train at all."

"Not from a train?"

"No. He was walking with Brotherhood along the railway line in the fog, and he lost his temper and pitched him over. At least, that's the story they're telling down at Binver."

"Oh, I see. That being so, this for the hole."

They went round again that afternoon. There