. The transgression of Terence Clancy. CHAPTER VII HE puzzled frame of mind into whichthe meetlnor at the town hall hadthrown Captain Rush remained with himthroughout the night ; and next morning,about the hour when the scene describedin the last chapter v/as enacting, he foundhimself walking into Chillington, still en-gaged in argument, analysis, speculation,and such-like mental exercises. He wasnaturally a man of action rather than ofthought; but now, for once in a way, hadarrived at the point of being unable todecide upon what course to take at a givenjuncture. .172 THE TRANSGRESSION OF How
. The transgression of Terence Clancy. CHAPTER VII HE puzzled frame of mind into whichthe meetlnor at the town hall hadthrown Captain Rush remained with himthroughout the night ; and next morning,about the hour when the scene describedin the last chapter v/as enacting, he foundhimself walking into Chillington, still en-gaged in argument, analysis, speculation,and such-like mental exercises. He wasnaturally a man of action rather than ofthought; but now, for once in a way, hadarrived at the point of being unable todecide upon what course to take at a givenjuncture. .172 THE TRANSGRESSION OF How to verify, or else to clear his mindof, a vague suspicion which at presentseemed merely to be floating in his senses,and unable to find a definite anchorage;which, in fact, was rather a quickening ofspeculation in a given direction than aformulated suspicion. That was the maincondition of the problem still demanding asolution. At present he had but a gossamer-thread of evidence to go upon ; and, as afair-minded man, conscious of a st
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