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Bill considered this carefully, and then nodded slowly again.
"Yes, my simple explanation is a wash-out," he said. "Now let's
have yours."
Antony did not answer him. He had begun to think about something
quite different.
CHAPTER IX
Possibilities of a Croquet Set
"What's the matter?" said Bill sharply.
Antony looked round at him with raised eyebrows.
"You've thought of something suddenly," said Bill. "What is it?"
Antony laughed.
"My dear Watson," he said, "you aren't supposed to be as clever
as this."
"Oh, you can't take me in!"
"No .... Well, I was wondering about this ghost of yours, Bill.
It seems to me--"
"Oh, that!" Bill was profoundly disappointed. "What on earth
has the ghost got to do with it?"
"I don't know," said Antony apologetically. "I don't know what
anything has got to do with it. I was just wondering. You
shouldn't have brought me here if you hadn't wanted me to think
about the ghost. This is where she appeared, isn't it?"
"Yes." Bill was distinctly short about it.
"How?"
"What?"
"I said, 'How?'"
"How? How do ghosts appear? I don't know. They just appear."
"Over four or five hundred yards of open park?"
"Well, but she had to appear here, because this is where the
original one--Lady Anne, you know--was supposed to walk."
"Oh, never mind Lady Anne! A real ghost can do anything. But
how did Miss Norris appear suddenly over five hundred yards of
bare park?"
Bill looked at Antony with open mouth.
"I--I don't know," he stammered. "We never thought of that."
"You would have seen her long before, wouldn't you, if she had
come the way we came?"
"Of course we should."
"And that would have spoilt it rather. You would have had time
to recognize her walk."
Bill was interested now.
"That's rather funny, you know, Tony. We none of us thought of
that."
"You're sure she didn't come across the park when none of you
were looking?"
"Quite. Because, you see, Betty and I were expecting her, and we
kept looking round in case we saw her, so that we should all be
playing with our backs to her."
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