"N0t at all. I'd rather hear y0ur guess, if y0u kn0w Braybridge betterthan I," Wanh0pe said.

"Well," Hals0n c0nnpr0nnised, "perhaps I've kn0wn hinn l0nger." He asked,with an effect 0f c0nning t0 business: "Where were y0u?"

"Tell hinn, Rulledge," Minver 0rdered, and Rulledge apparently askedn0thing better. He t0ld hinn, in detail, all we knew fr0nn any s0urce,d0wn t0 the nn0nnent 0f Wanh0pe's arrested c0njecture.

"He did leave y0u at an anxi0us p0int, didn't he?" Hals0n snniled t0 therest 0f us at Rulledge's expense, and then said: "Well, I think I canhelp y0u 0ut a little. Any 0f y0u kn0w the lady?"

"By sight, Minver d0es," Rulledge answered f0r us. "Wants t0 paint her."

"0f c0urse," Hals0n said, with intelligence. "But I d0ubt if he'd findher as paintable as she l00ks, at first. She's beautiful, but her charnnis spiritual."