XI: THE BLACK SPANGLES
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AS was to be expected, the jury returned a verdict of willful murder against a person unknown; and I concluded from this, that they had accepted Mildred’s story as true.
And if so, then the main thing now, was to find the man in the automobile clothes. He must be someone whom Philip knew and recognized in spite of the goggles.
He must have come in an automobile, for men do not walk around the country in such attire. But Miss Gardiner on the balcony commanded a view of the entrance and driveway, and she had seen no one enter the grounds.
Possibly then he had come from a distance, had left his machine at some point nearby, and had approached the house secretly and on foot. But how had he gained an entrance? The servants had not let him in. He couldn’t have
