guarded; he would talk the situation over with his wife. So he said that he had known Harrington at Cambridge, and believed he had died suddenly in 1889, adding a few details about the man and his published work. He did talk over the matter with Mrs. Gayton, and, as he had anticipated, she leapt at once to the conclusion which had been hovering before him. It was she who reminded him of the surviving brother, Henry Harrington, and she also who suggested that he might be got hold of by means of their hosts of the day before. “He might be a hopeless crank,” objected Gayton. “That could be ascertained from the Bennetts, who knew him,” Mrs. Gayton retorted; and she undertook to see the Bennetts the very next day.
It is not necessary to tell in further detail
the steps by which Henry Harrington and
Dunning were brought together.
The next scene that requires to be narrated
is a conversation that took place between the
