"In connection with that?" she asked, in a low voice.
"Yes! I received your letter in London, and went at once down to Jarlchester on a walking tour, that is, I made my walking tour an excuse for being there. I stayed there a week, and then received your second letter saying he was coming."
"And he came?" asked Judith, with a quick indrawn breath.
"He did."
"You saw him?" she continued, looking nervously towards the two whispering figures at the end of the room.
"Yes!"
"And got—and got the letters?"
"Of course," said Axton, in a tone of surprise. "I sent them to you—to the post office, as you desired."
"My God!" she said, in a low voice of agony, "I—I have not received them. I went to the post office every day to ask for a packet directed to Miss Judith, but have been told it had not come."
"Good heavens!" said Roger, with a start of surprise, "I hope they have not gone astray—I ought to have registered them."