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It was two days later before Ellen had the chance of meeting her friends at the bungalow again. She had watched Wrath drive away to Barnstaple on one of those mysterious errands of his, and she had walked as far as Lyndale with Mrs. Amberley, who had told her that she also was going a little way up the line to see an old acquaintance of hers who lived in the country. Then, with the coast clear, Ellen went as far as the bungalow.
"I am sorry I couldn't get here before," she said, as the two men rose to greet her. "Everything has been very quiet, and I have nothing to do. But I am very curious to know what happened the other night when you followed Sir Christopher."