Chapter 9 Nine

It was horrible.We had just stepped out into the street when he spoke at once. I could see that he had come out with me just to continue talking with me about something he had been talking to his sister-in-law for hours. We don't know which woman it is at all, you know, he said, we only know that the rascal has gone to Paris. I always thought they had a good relationship. is good.Hmph, before you came, Ami also said that they hadn't had a single quarrel in all these years of marriage.You know what May is like.There is no better woman in the world than her. Since he volunteered to tell me all the family's secrets, I thought I might as well ask a few more questions.

You mean she guessed nothing? Didn't guess anything.He had spent August in Norfolk with her and the children.He was exactly the same as usual, and there was nothing unusual about him.My wife and I spent two or three days in their country, and I played golf with him.In September, he came back to the city to let his partner go on vacation.May is still in the country.They had rented a house in the country for six weeks, and before the end of the house she wrote him a letter, telling him which day she would come back to London.His reply was from Paris, saying that he had made up his mind not to live with her.

How does he explain it? He didn't explain at all, kid.I read that letter.Less than ten lines. It's really strange. We were just crossing the road at this point, and our conversation was interrupted by a passing vehicle.What MacAndrew told me sounded unbelievable, and I suspected that Mrs. Strickland, for her own reasons, was keeping part of the truth from him.It is very clear that a person who has been married for seventeen years will not run away from home for no reason. There must be something in it that will make her guess that their married life is not happy.I was thinking about this when the colonel came up from behind again.

Of course, he couldn't explain it other than confessing that he eloped with another woman.As far as I can see, he thinks that sooner or later she'll figure it out for herself.He is such a person. What did Mrs. Strickland intend to do? Ha, the first thing is to catch the evidence.I am going to go to Paris by myself. What about his business? This is where he is cunning.Over the past year, he has been shrinking the stall smaller and smaller. He told the partner he didn't tell him that he didn't want to do it? Not a word was revealed. Colonel MacAndrew was not very good at stock trading, and I was not at all, so I don't know exactly under what circumstances Strickland quit his business.I got the impression that the partner he had thrown off midway was so maddened that he threatened to sue.It seems that when everything is properly arranged, the man will lose four or five hundred pounds in his purse.

Fortunately, all the furniture in the house was written under Ami's name.She can drop these things anyway. Just now you said that she didn't have a penny, was it true? of course it's true.All she had was two or three hundred pounds and the furniture. So how does she live? God knows. The matter became more complicated, and the colonel was furious and swearing. Not only could he not explain the matter clearly, but it made me more confused the more I listened.I was glad that when he saw the big clock above the Army and Navy store, he suddenly remembered his appointment to play cards at the club.He parted from me and walked in the other direction across St James's Park.