‘Curious. It may have been Peak.’
‘By all that’s suspicious, I can’t help thinking the same! He had an English accent, too.’
‘Queer business, this of Peak’s. I hope I may live to hear the end of the story.’
They left the restaurant, and in a few hours Earwaker was again on English soil.
At Staple Inn a pile of letters awaited him, among them a note from Christian Moxey, asking for an appointment as soon as possible after the journalist’s return. Earwaker at once sent an invitation, and on the next evening Moxey came. An intimacy had grown up between the two, since the mysterious retreat of their common friend. Christian was at first lost without the companionship of Godwin Peak; he forsook his studies, and fell into a state of complete idleness which naturally fostered his tendency to
