Jack showed me the letter. . . . You know about this?" she asked
Jimmy, shooting out the question of a sudden.
I interrupted it. "Jimmy knows about it," said I. "No one else."
She looked at us calmly, taking stock of us. "Very well," she said;
"and Jack has told me the whole story too, of course. I didn't know
till this moment that Jimmy knew: but I'm so glad he does, for it
makes us all four-square. Now, when first Jack got your letter,
Roddy, He was for sending the information in six words on a post
card, as being all that was due to an old friend that had so
misjudged him. But I persuaded him, and--"
The outer door slammed upon the word, and a brisk footstep sounded in
the passage. I recognised it at once. So did Constantia.
"--And here he is!" exclaimed Constantia, without rising, "--come, as
it happens, to have it out with the pair of you. . . . Hallo, Jack!"
I am bound to say that my first look at Jack Foe gave me a start, as
he too started at sight of Jimmy, whose presence, of course, he had
not expected. He was pale in comparison with the tan of two months
back: but at every other point he was wonderfully set up and
improved.
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