Avril cleared his throat.
“How are you going to square me with Edward?” he said. It was a most unexpected remark, and Mayo’s response to it was even more so.
“Oh yes,” he said. “You told me he trusted you with them. Exactly. Well now, I think you’d better give him this.”
He took out his wallet again and produced a card.
“What’s his name? Longfox? Right. Admit Edward Longfox. See? I’ve written that on the back. You give it to him and tell him I’ll be very happy to see him any time. How’s that?”
It was a curious little incident, and both Luke and Campion were uneasily aware of a quality in the man which neither had suspected. The old canon took the card. He seemed very satisfied.
“Thank you. You’ll find him very intelligent. He was telling us that young Sam can use this machine so much
