CHAPTER V

That was just what Collison himself was thinking. There seemed to be no doubt about it. Cynthia Vandelys was Simpson Jones. Simpson Jones was Cynthia Vandelys. Therefore—granting this to be so—the supply of the sweet and sentimental stories which had so attracted a certain section of the novel-reading public was now dried up, at its source. Unless Simpson Jones, otherwise Cynthia Vandelys, had left a posthumous work, _The Flower that Once Has Blown_ was not only the third but the last of a remarkable series. But th…