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"Oh! yes, sir, I grant you the thing is not impossible from a theoretical point of view," argued Lewes, "but I think you are theorising on altogether insufficient evidence. I am willing to admit that such a freak is theoretically possible, but I have not yet found the indications of such a power in the child." Challis resumed his pacing.
I suppose I looked my amazement, for Challis laughed. "Oh, well," he said, "of course you won't take such spontaneous advice as that. I'm in no hurry. Come in." He took off his heavy overcoat and threw it into the tonneau. "Come round again in an hour," he said to the chauffeur. "It's very good of you," I protested, "I could come quite well at any other time." "I'm in no hurry," he repeated.
On that occasion I hardly listened to him, but he came up to the farm again after tea and marched me off to dinner at the Court. I was strangely plastic when commanded, but when he suggested that I should give up my walks with the Wonder, go away ... I smiled and said "Impossible," as though that ended the matter. Challis, however, persisted, and I suppose I was not too far gone to listen to him.
As Challis watched the curious couple go down the drive, he sighed again, perhaps with relief, perhaps at the impotence of the world of men. There were four striking figures on the Education Committee selected by the Ailesworth County Council. The first of these was Sir Deane Elmer, who was also chairman of the Council at this time.
The Wonder took not the least notice of the question, but he stretched out a little hand and took a biscuit and ate it, without looking up from his reading. "I wish he'd answer questions," Challis remarked to Lewes, later. "I should prescribe a sound shaking," returned Lewes. Challis smiled. "Well, see here, Lewes," he said, "I'll take the responsibility; you go and experiment; go and shake him."
"The sheriff has a man who will ride with you to the station or the city, whichever you may elect. Now, may I trouble you to make answer to certain questions I shall write out for you at once? The man is Challis Wrandall, your husband? You are positive?" "I am positive. He is or was Challis Wrandall." Half an hour later, she was ready for the trip to New York City.
Wrandall, beads of perspiration standing on his forehead. "He had not left town. I will not try to describe my feelings. Late in the afternoon, I called them up again. He had not returned. It was then that I thought of going to the apartment, which had been closed all winter. Watson and his wife were to go in the next day by my instructions. Challis had been living at a club, I believe.
Neither he nor any other member of the Committee was capable of checking that answer without resort to pencil and paper. "Dear me!" ejaculated Squire Standing. Elmer scratched the superabundance of his purple jowl, and looked at Challis, who thrust his hands into his pockets and stared at the ceiling. Crashaw leaned forward and clasped his hands together. He was biding his time.
"We've no books, sir, and we never 'ardly see a paper now. All we 'ave in the 'ouse is a Bible and two copies of Lillywhite's cricket annual as my 'usband left be'ind." Challis smiled. "Has he read those?" he asked. "The Bible 'e 'as, I believe," replied Mrs. Stott. It was a conversation curious in its impersonality.
I'd just finished, sir," said Ellen Mary, and remained standing with an air of quiet deference. Challis took the celebrated armchair, and motioned Lewes to the window-sill, the nearest available seat for him. "Please sit down, Mrs. Stott," he said, and Ellen Mary sat, apologetically.
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