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But how a man of the Pendean type could
have provoked such a storm I have yet to learn. So far the testimony
of Mrs. Pendean and the assurances of Inspector Halfyard at
Princetown indicate an amiable and quiet person, slow to anger.
Inspector Halfyard knew him quite well at the Moss Depot, where he
worked through two years of the war. He was apparently not a man to
have infuriated Captain Redmayne or anybody else."
Mark then related his own brief personal experience of Redmayne on
the occasion of their meeting by the quarry pools. For some reason
this personal anecdote touched Flora Reed and the detective observed
that she was genuinely moved by it.
Indeed she began to weep and presently rose and left them. Her
parents were able to speak more freely upon her departure.
Mr. Reed indeed, from being somewhat silent and indifferent, grew
voluble.
"I think it right to tell you," he said, "that my wife and I never
cared much for this engagement. Redmayne meant well and had a good
heart I believe.


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