Dartmoor, and his sister, who has joined him, is as devoted to
Nature as himself. 
Despite your telegram from London, at the time we saw the man
with the black beard pursuing Sir Henry, neither the postmaster
at Grimpen nor his boy can vouch for Barrymore's presence in
Devonshire then. Sir Henry asked Barrymore directly whether or
not he had received the telegram, and Barrymore replied that
his wife had given it to him. He was indignant at being cross-
questioned, and Sir Henry had to pacify him by giving him a
considerable part of his old wardrobe. Suppose that Barrymore
were in London all the time - the last to see Sir Charles alive
and the first to dog the new heir when he returned to England?
Was he the agent of others, or had he some sinister design of his
own? I think of the strange warning clipped from "The Times".
Was this his work, or possibly the doing of someone bent upon
counteracting his schemes? The only conceivable motive is
