VI - Clues
I DIDN’T reach my office until afternoon, and there I found Norah, in a brown study.
She looked up with a smile as I came in.
“I’m neglecting my work,” she said, with a glance at a pile of papers, “but that affair across the hall has taken hold of me and I can’t put it out of my mind.”
“Nor can I. I feel as if I were deeply involved in it,—if not indeed, an accessory! But there are new developments. Mr. Manning is missing.”
“Mr. Manning? What has he got to do with it?”
“With the crime? Nothing. He didn’t come up here until Miss Raynor came, you know. But——”
“Are they engaged?”
“Not that I know of. I think not.”
“Well, they will be, then. And don’t worry about Mr. Manning’s absence. He’ll not stay long away from Miss Raynor. Who is he, anyway? I mean what does he do?”
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