Chapter 36
HIS first thought, after his mind began to be normal, was of Dora. What effect would this new and greatest of all tragedies have upon the girl? She must be told, although the shock might kill her. He sent a message to all stations, ordering cyclist patrols to warn the men on duty to report the yellow motorcyclist, and almost immediately he had news of the murderer. He had passed under the Admiralty Arch into Green Park, had been seen going up Constitutional Hill, and had turned into Hyde Park, moving in the direction of Knightsbridge. After that all trace of him was lost, until about seven o'clock in the morning, when the bicycle was found in a clump of rhododendron bushes, and with it the man's leather coat and hat. He himself had vanished.
Dicker saw the Treasury officials,
