Chapter 44

So she began upon _Country Neighbors_. She had not read a dozen pages before a suspicion as to the identity of their author began to creep upon her. Miss Hallam's statement that his name was fictitious but that he was well known by his own had roused her curiosity. Just what it was which first made her think of David MacRoss she could hardly tell. The clue lay subtly in the turn of a phrase, an angle of observation; presently it was to be pursued in the characters themselves, drawn with almost the fidelity of portr…