2. AFTERNOONMr. Raunham and Edward Springrove had by this time set in motion
a machinery which they hoped to find working out important
results.
The rector was restless and full of meditation all the following
morning. It was plain, even to the servants about him, that
Springrove's communication wore a deeper complexion than any that
had been made to the old magistrate for many months or years past.
The fact was that, having arrived at the stage of existence in
which the difficult intellectual feat of suspending one's judgment
becomes possible, he was now putting it in practice, though not
without the penalty of watchful effort.
It was not till the afternoon that he determined to call on his
relative, Miss Aldclyffe, and cautiously probe her knowledge of the
subject occupying
