He leaves his diggings before anybody is up and, from that
exit, vanishes off the face of the earth. But during the same
day--probably by noon--Giuseppe Doria arrives at 'Crow's Nest'--an
Italian whom nobody knows, or has even seen before.
"That meant good-bye to any theory of a half brother for Michael;
and it also meant that not Pendean, but his wife's uncle, Robert
Redmayne, perished on Dartmoor. And there he lies yet, my son!"
Mr. Ganns took snuff and proceeded.
"Now, having made this tremendous deduction, I looked over all the
facts again and they became very much more interesting. Every moment
I expected some crushing blow to shake my structure; at every turn I
guessed a certainty would come along and bowl my theory over; but no
such thing happened. Details, of course, there are--many little
pieces of the puzzle now known to only one man alive, and that is
Pendean himself; but the main incidents, the true picture, loomed
out clear enough for me before I left Dartmouth and came back to
Albert in London.
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