“You can refer to persons who have seen you?”
“Easily.”
He turned the sheet of note-paper, and pointed to Geoffrey’s penciled letter on the fourth page.
“How long had he been in Scotland, when he wrote this? More than three weeks, too?”
Anne considered for a moment.
“For God’s sake, be careful!” said Sir Patrick. “You don’t know what depends on this, If your memory is not clear about it, say so.”
“My memory was confused for a moment. It is clear again now. He had been at his brother’s in Perthshire three weeks before he wrote that. And before he went to Swanhaven, he spent three or four days in the valley of the Esk.”
“Are you sure again?”
“Quite sure!”
“Do you know of any one who saw him in the valley of the Esk?”