Chapter 3
It was with unfeigned amazement that Major Dundas heard Miriam's revelation. He recalled now the man's military career, and he marvelled at her relationship with him only the more as he did so. She would have confided in him further he knew, but at that moment her husband's key grated in the lock, and it was all the distraught woman could do to compose herself. "Not a word about him to Gerald," she whispered hurriedly. "I can trust you-he knows nothing. I will tell you everything later on." How much later on it was to be Miriam little thought then. For two years she had enjoyed comparative immunity from trouble-trouble, that is of the kind with which she had for so long been beset. But, heralded by this reappearance of Jabez, there was to come upon her a long list of disasters, following
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