Crofton." He waited a moment and then added: "India is a
very nice place."
"Yes, indeed. Full of tigers and leopards!" she said playfully.
"I should go as soon as you can if I were you."
She looked at him distrustfully. What exactly did he mean?
_"Someone we wot of got off very lightly at the inquest."_
His voice sank almost to a whisper, but Enid Crofton felt as if the
terrible sentence was being shouted for all the world to hear.
Timmy's eyes were now fixed on the gay-looking blue rug spread out before
the fender to his right. He was remembering something he had done of
which he was ashamed.
Then he lifted his head and began again staring at the space between Mrs.
Crofton's chair and the wall.
Enid Crofton opened her mouth and then she shut it again. What did the
boy know? What had he seen? What had he been told? She remembered that
Mr. Tosswill was a magistrate. Had the Pipers been down to see him?
"There were some people," went on the boy, and again he spoke in that
queer, muffled whisper, almost as if the words were being dragged out of
him against his will, "who thought"--he stopped--"who thought," he
repeated, "that Colonel Crofton did not take that poison knowingly.
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