I answered slowly.

“I don’t know,” I said. “I have been buried in the ruins of a house

thirteen or fourteen days. I don’t know what has happened.”

He looked at me doubtfully, then started, and looked with a changed

expression.

“I’ve no wish to stop about here,” said I. “I think I shall go to

Leatherhead, for my wife was there.”

He shot out a pointing finger.

“It is you,” said he; “the man from Woking. And you weren’t killed at

Weybridge?”

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