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Jan Digby had strolled into the main street of Ballina in order to make a few necessary purchases. He had so long been accustomed to the unseeing stares of the better class townsfolk that he did not notice at first a sudden disposition on their part to observe him. But having intercepted a few incautious glances he anticipated others, and derived a sort of malicious satisfaction from the pastime; since whenever he encountered the gaze of a passerby his opponent changed color and looked shiftily away.
"I might be in an Italian village, fully accredited with possession of an 'evil eye'!" muttered Jan, with a smile of bitterness. Having concluded his business, he was about to return to the Bungalow, when on stepping out of a draper's shop he came face to face with Major Reay, who stood on the footpath talking to Mr. Best and two other gentlemen.