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"Oh, you know what I mean not actually dragging sofas and tables about, but she will chairs, as you'll see. And lots of other things. Look at the Rendall children. The house always looks as if it had been stirred up with the pudding-stick, and Sally Rendall spends good half her time looking for things they have carted off.
But, frankly, I've no doubt whatever that Miss Rendall simply forgot him when you asked her." "All the characters seem cleared except mine," I remarked. "Wait a bit, old chap. Now we'll come to the really suspicious things that you actually did see. First, the man on the shore." "Can't he be explained away?" "Possibly," said Jack imperturbably, "but he needs a good deal more explaining.
There was no assurance, no tribute of attention and consciousness of her presence, such as a girl as charming as Miss Rendall has the right to expect from every man with an eye in his head; and which I must confess the mysterious stranger used to pay her, for all her dislike to him. Mr.
I am here to investigate certain things that have been going on in this island, and I'll put one question to you straight, Dr. Rendall. You remember being visited by a certain man Merton last August, When you heard him approaching your house why did you pull down your blind?" That shot went straight home. All the indignation vanished and I saw on the instant I had him at my mercy.
In fact I could see it in her eye to-day." "Well," I said, "I'll call to-morrow and dispel her interest in me." Since my talk with the doctor, his theory about Jean Rendall had crossed my mind occasionally, and improbable as it was, I thought I might as well test it. "By the way," I asked, "did you by any chance ever speak to Miss Rendall about my last visit to the island?"
"Oh, you saw it then!" she exclaimed. "I almost smelt the slow match! But why did you do it?" "Well, you know what I thought you were then, and there was no one else to go with you." "Then you actually went out with a spy at night to keep an eye on him and shoot him if he spied?" "I should probably have missed!" she laughed. I was quite ready to swear by Jean Rendall now. Talk of pluck!
But again I refused the proffered explanation, even though it was quite evidently the easiest way of accounting for myself. "No," said I, "but I am very greatly interested in your beautiful island, Dr. Rendall. What a convenient spot to own!" I still threw a touch of significance into my remark especially on the word "convenient" but this time I got a wholly unexpected answer.
A few hands only, besides myself, were on deck, taking our fisherman's walk, with our fingers in our pockets, and the watch below were sound asleep in their berths, when Captain Rendall, as was his custom, went aloft before turning in, to take a look-out for fish from his crow's-nest. We watched him eagerly.
With the temperature below freezing and thin showers of dry snow driving up every now and then before a biting nor'east wind, there was little temptation to go abroad without excuse. My excuse was due in an hour's time when Miss Rendall and Mr.
He broke off suddenly and we instinctively moved a pace further apart. A figure had appeared round a turn of the road just ahead of us, a trim, dainty figure, delightful to see in such a place, but a little disconcerting to see so suddenly and so close to us. It was Jean Rendall, looking her best, but not, it seemed to me, quite in the right place. Had she noticed anything?
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