But for the time being, at all events, Larose was to have no further opportunity for speculation, for, arriving back at the Abbey, all was bustle and animation in preparation for the shoot. The men were to start away first, then, if it continued fine, the ladies would be joining them at the picnic lunch.
Always an enthusiastic lover of the gun, the detective was now delighted at the thought of his first meeting with the lordly and aristocratic pheasant.
So, notwithstanding his many perplexities and the very disappointing interview with the fisherman, he was in quite an elated state of mind, as, together with Sir Parry Bardell and Rankin, he found himself being driven swiftly along in the car of the great surgeon. Four cars in all were then leaving the Abbey.
But it was well for him that
