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As the detective wished to attract as little attention as possible in the renewed investigations he was about to make, he decided not to take his car to Flegne. After lunch he packed a few necessaries in a handbag, and caught the afternoon train to Heathfield.
He raised the folk of the Southern, as he had raised those of the Central and Northern shires; and in sixteen days after a march which in those times was a prodigious feat he was entrenched upon the fatal down which men called Heathfield then, and Senlac, but Battle to this day with William and his French Normans opposite him on Telham hill. Then came the battle of Hastings.
"As a further contributory link in the chain of evidence against Ronald, you intend to use the fact that he was turned out of the Grand Hotel, Durrington, the previous day because he couldn't pay his hotel bill, because this fact, combined with the fact that Mr. Glenthorpe showed him the money he had drawn from the bank at Heathfield, supplies a strong motive for the crime.
He tells me you have chosen Heathfield for your future home, and that he is to find you lodgings. Sit down, dear, and tell me all about it, she went on eagerly. 'I thought you had given up all that when when but here she stopped and her lips trembled; of course she meant when Charlie died, but she rarely spoke his name.
"I am extremely sorry to have caused so much trouble, but I assure you that I am not ungrateful." "It don't seem like it when you won't do what little you might to please," returned the doctor. "Don't say will not," Dr. Heathfield. "Ay but I must say will not, and excuse me when I add, that you greatly mistake your duty to give way to this apathy, and thus retard your recovery," he said kindly.
You must stay and have tea with me, and then he can thank you himself. No, I shall take no refusal. Tracy, tell Marvel to bring up the tea-tray at once. My dear, turning to me, when Tracy had left the room, 'I am almost ashamed to look you in the face when I remember how long you have been in Heathfield and that I have never called on you; but Etta told me that you did not care to have visitors.
Hardie smelt a beggar, and prepared to parry all attempts upon his purse. "I hope I see my old master well," said Skinner coaxingly. "Pretty well in body, Skinner; thank you." "I had a deal of trouble to find you, sir. But I heard of the great lawsuit between Mr. Alfred and you, and I knew Mr. Heathfield was your solicitor; so I watched at his place day after day: and at last you came.
As the train came up, I heard him ask Jill how long they were to stay at Hastings, and if they would be at Hyde Park Gate before Easter. 'I shall be up in town then, he remarked carelessly, 'to see some of my people. 'Oh yes, and you must come and see us, she returned cheerfully. 'Good-bye, Mr. Tudor. I am so sorry to leave Heathfield.
Well, like those of Cornelius, her prayers and alms had gone up before God and brought a Peter. About four miles from her home was a favourite nook to which she oft resorted. In a hollow of the hills, which rise gently to their summit behind Heathfield, overshadowed by tall trees, environed by purple heather, was a dark deep pond: so black in the shade that its waters looked like ink.
Heathfield said you were not to do so, if it could be avoided, and Emmy, if there should be anything serious, mind you telegraph mamma, and if you get very much alarmed, you know that I could get here in a few hours, and I shall not mind the trouble, so make yourself easy. But at all events, I intend to run down in two or three weeks, just to see how you all get on mind you write often Emmy."
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