CHAPTER XL.
"How green are you and fresh in this old world!"
On the morning of the garden party Joseph Jagenal called on Lawrence Colquhoun.
"I have two or three things to say," he began, "if you can give me five minutes."
"Twenty," said Lawrence. "Now then."
He threw himself back in his easiest chair and prepared to listen.
"I am in the way of hearing things sometimes," Joseph said. "And I heard a good deal yesterday about Mr. Gabriel Cassilis."
"What?" said Lawrence, aghast, "he surely has not been telling all the world about it!"
"I think we are talking of different things," Joseph answered after a pause. "Don't tell me what you mean, but what I mean is that there is an uneasy feeling about Gabriel Cassilis."
"Ay? In what way?"