“I don’t count the time from to-day, Marian. All I have done to-day is to ask another man to act for me. I count from to-morrow——”
“Why from to-morrow?”
“Because to-morrow I mean to act for myself.”
“How?”
“I shall go to Blackwater by the first train, and return, I hope, at night.”
“To Blackwater!”
“Yes. I have had time to think since I left Mr. Kyrle. His opinion on one point confirms my own. We must persist to the last in hunting down the date of Laura’s journey. The one weak point in the conspiracy, and probably the one chance of proving that she is a living woman, centre in the discovery of that date.”
“You mean,” said Marian, “the discovery that Laura did not leave Blackwater Park till after the date of her death on the doctor’s certificate?”
“Certainly.”
“What makes you think it might have been after? Laura can tell us nothing of the time she was in London.”