Macandrew nodded. "I told Mr. Arnold here all about it, and about your idea of the two beings twins."
"My idea has proved to be correct. They are twins."
Tod jumped up, scattering his papers, and with his red hair almost standing on end. "Do you mean to say that Rebb----"
"Yes. Sit down. Toddy, and listen," said Gerald vigorously, and when his legal adviser became quiet he related the whole of the conversation with Rebb.
"Well I'm blessed," muttered Tod, rubbing his head, when the narrative was ended, "what a wonderful thing! There is something in your intuitions after all, Jerry."
"I don't think it needed much intuition to guess at a possible relationship, seeing how marvelously alike Mavis is to Charity. The wonderful part consists in my getting Rebb to give himself away."
"Ah," said Arnold significantly, "the military gentleman is beginning to see that the wheel of fortune is turning the wrong way with him."
"And quite right too," said Tod meditatively. "What a scoundrel the man is, to be sure! Well, Jerry, important as what you have told us is, I am more interested in the movements of Mrs. Crosbie and her mother. When you tell me about them I can explain what Mr. Arnold and myself have discovered at Belldown."
"There is little to tell about them. Rebb came down after me, and they came down after Rebb. He asked his future bride here to have a second look at her future home."
"Oh, so she had been here before?"