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What had happened? What had become of the founder of the feast? A group of well-dressed people stood on the platform of the terminus, discussing the mystery eagerly. Liston could have thrown some light on it, and in a lesser degree so might have Childers. But fate was playing into their hands now. Scandal might be averted, and Lady Letty's name be kept out of the business altogether. Du Cros had met with an accident and fallen off the train. Still suffering from the effects of his accident, he must have been seized with an attack of giddiness and the rest could be imagined. This was the conclusion come to by the quidnuncs and wiseacres on the platform.
"You can give a pretty good guess at the truth?" Liston asked, as he and Childers went away together. "The situation must be clear to you. Now that he is out of the way the police need do little more; it will not be worth while. The affair will be a nine days' wonder, and furnish food for gossip, but the world at large will never know who killed Lancaster.