"You cannot deny it," she said.

And he did not deny it.

Then she turned her head, and looked at him with clever, speculative
keenness.

"Why have you asked for your recall?" she asked, slowly.

And still Cartoner made no answer. He was without rival in the art of
leaving things unsaid. Then Martin came to them, laughing and talking.
And across the course, amid the tag-rag and bobtail of Warsaw, the eyes
of the man called Kosmaroff watched their every movement.




XIII

THE WHEELS OF CHANCE

When Martin and Wanda returned to the grand-stand they found the next
box to theirs, which had hitherto been empty, occupied by a sedate party
of foreigners. Miss Mangles had come to the races, not because she cared
for sport, but because she had very wisely argued in her mind that one
cannot set about to elevate human nature without a knowledge of those
depths to which it sometimes descends.

"And this," she said, when she had settled herself on the chair