THE elation, however, was only temporary, for, as Jopling scratched his head over those few lines, his brains seemed to tangle up. What did it all mean? How was it that Bob was able to speak with such certainty and say: “All will be well. I will bring her back to you?” Where d**k got fogged was in trying to theorize how it was Bob was mixed up in the affair. If he knew of Pym’s rascality, why did he not prevent him taking the girl away? Why should he have waited until the deed was done? Then another question that shaped itself was: What power or influence had Bob to take the girl from Pym? d**k did not forget that his daughter had told him she could mould Pym as she wished; nor that she had talked of becoming a great lady, by that implying she would become the wife of Pym. Now supposing th
