THE DOUBLE ALIBI 



, LEN ALINE is probably 

 the loneliest place in the 

 lone moorlands of Western 



Galloway. The country is entirely pastoral, and 

 1 fancy that the very pasture is bad enough. 

 Stretches of deer-grass and ling, rolling end- 

 lessly to the feet of Cairnsmurc and the circle 

 of the eastern hills, cannot be good feeding for 



