"
"It'll depend a good deal on the way it's cooked, I suppose," said the
Major.
"It will also depend upon the judge's reaching Ballymoy. As a matter
of fact, I have a plan in my mind which may--which probably
will--prevent his getting further than Donard. I intend to ask Dr.
O'Donoghue to co-operate with me. I can't be quite certain yet that
we'll be successful in heading off the judge and sending him somewhere
else for his salmon fishing. But my plan is an extremely good one. It
ought to come off all right. If it fails, I shall try another. I
shall try two or three more if necessary."
"I wish you wouldn't. These plans of yours always end in involving us
all in such frightful complications."
"Do you mean to say, Major, that you wish to give up the idea of
Simpkins' marriage and subsequent death?"
"I've always wished to give it up," said the Major. "Since the day you
first suggested I never liked it, and I like it much less now that I
have got to know Miss King. It seems to me a wicked thing even to
think of a girl like that being married to such an utter cad as
Simpkins."
"I don't know how you can sit there and confess without a blush that
you don't know your own mind for two days together.
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