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Collingwood had many things to think over as he walked across Normandale Park that morning. He had deliberately given up his Indian appointment for Nesta's sake, so that he might be near her in case the trouble which he feared arose suddenly. But it was too soon yet to let her know that she was the cause of his altered arrangements -- in any case, that was not the time to tell her that it was on her account that he had altered them.
He must make some plausible excuse: then he must settle down in Barford, according to Eldrick's suggestion. He would then be near at hand -- and if the trouble, whatever it might be, took tangible form, he would be able to help. But he was still utterly in the dark as to what that possible trouble might be -- yet, of one thing he felt convinced -- it would have some connection with Pratt.