21. WHAT HAPPENED TO EVE DURAND
Flannery turned fiercely on Eve Durand. “Then you’ve known all along?” he cried. “You knew the Major had been here before—you saw him that night he did for Sir Frederic—”
“No, no,” she protested. “I didn’t see him—I never dreamed of such a thing. And if he knew I was in the building that night, he took good care to keep out of my way. For if I had seen him—if I had known—it would have been the final straw. I’d have told. I’d have told the whole story at once.”
Flannery grew calmer. “Well, let’s go back. You’re Eve Durand—you admit it at last. Fifteen years ago you ran away from your husband in Peshawar. You went with the caravan of Colonel Beetham here—”
The woman looked up, startled, and for the first time saw the explorer. “That’s all true,” she said s
