It was Mrs Cody who eventually brought in the tea,
placed it on the table, and immediately retired. This was the gentleman who visited
you, Martin! You have that young lady waiting for me when I come back.
Sneed must know, if he could only arouse that
lethargic man from his sleep. Here there was neither sign of disorder nor evidence
that the girl was in the house.
I do not expect you to do, that, said Mr Cody
hastily.
He was disappointed, for he had intended, on the
lamest excuse, to take her to tea that afternon. It was padlocked and covered with a
stout wire netting.
The bulk of the house was visible for fifty yards
before they came to it.
Rum thing about this Lord Selford business, said
Sneed meditatively.
I dont know what your dirty business is - -Mr Cody
exploded in anger. Here is one, said Dick, and here is another.
That reference to your condition of mind does not
appear in this document.
He busied himself with the tray and the
teapot.
The phone wire was cut while I was talking, he
announced, and there was a silence.
I have telephoned, asking her to stay at the Mitre
Inn, Dorking.
That reference to your condition of mind does not
appear in this document. She shuddered and almost fainted with horror. Here is one,
said Dick, and here is another. She saw him turn pale and gripped him by the arm. A
builders ladder, he said, and made his way towards it. There are probably finger -
prints on the poker that will be very useful.
And I was only seven when he went away - -When he
died, suggested Cody with unexpected mildness.
I dont know who she is or what she is; if theres
any monkey game going on, Im not in it. It was in the third and last room on the
left that he made his discovery. The document was written on a quarto sheet and was
closely typewritten. Ive got a car down here - - Mine is faster.
Knowing that her mother would not be back at the
flat for another hour, she agreed.
Im going through to the kitchen to have some tea. A
mere whim of mine, but I am a whimsical person.
There came no sound but the slow, solemn ticking of
a dock on a landing above. He was in Cape Town the day the new Governor - General
arrived.