Chapter 29 ALL IN ORDER

So that we might have it to ourselves, we had returned from Newcastle to Berwick in a first-class compartment, and in its privacy Mr. Lindsey had told Mr. Portlethorpe the whole of the Smeaton story. Mr. Portlethorpe had listened-so it seemed to me-with a good deal of irritation and impatience; he was clearly one of those people who do not like int