Chapter 15My dear Campion——[Uncle William’s cramped hand fluttered crazily over the page.]
Since your rather extraordinary desertion I have stuck to my post, gathering up such odd scraps of information as have come my way. I have no doubt that you know what you are up to and have some very good reason for going off in this remarkable manner. I shall be glad to hear it when we meet in the near future. Let me say now that I have absolute faith in you, as I have always had, and I am perfectly sure that you are well equipped to bring to a satisfactory solution all the little difficulties with which we now find ourselves beset.
This house is not a very happy harbour at the moment, I am afraid. Konrad’s bicycle is still in the cloakroom, I noticed this morning, so I suppose we still have a vis
