? ? ? ? " 'I hardly follow you,' said Musgrave. 'The paper seems to me to be of no practical importance.'
? ? ? ? " 'But to me it seems immensely practical, and I fancy that Brunton took the same view. He had probably seen it before that night on which you caught him.'
? ? ? ? " 'It is very possible. We took no pains to hide it.'
? ? ? ? " 'He simply wished, I should imagine, to refresh his memory upon that last occasion. He had, as I understand, some sort of map or chart which he was comparing with the manuscript, and which he thrust into his pocket when you appeared.'
? ? ? ? " 'That is true. But what could he have to do with this old family custom of ours, and what does this rigmarole mean?'
? ? ? ? " 'I don't think that we should have much difficulty in determining that,' said I; 'with your permission we will take the first train down to Sussex and go a little more deeply into the matter upon the spot.
? ? ? ? "The same afternoon saw us both at Hurlstone. Possibly you have seen pictures and read descriptions of the famous old building, so I will confine my account of it to saying that it is built in the shape of an L.
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