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That night as French was writing up his diary the question he had asked Domlio recurred to him. "Tell me, Colonel," he had said, "did it not strike you as strange that Mrs. Berlyn should stumble at just the point which ensured her falling into your arms? " He had asked it to test the colonel's belief in the incident. Now it occurred to him that on its merits it required an answer.
Had the incident stood alone it might well have passed unquestioned. But it was not alone. Two other matters must be considered in conjunction with it.