CHAPTER III.--THE HOUSE ON THE FENS
Larose had been greatly relieved to see that afternoon that the newspapers had not got hold of much detail in their accounts of the tragedy at Avon Court, and that none of the names of the dead man's fellow guests were mentioned. But, with Sir George refusing to furnish any information at all and with Chief Inspector Stone keeping a tight rein upon what should be released by the police at that juncture, he could understand it.
No one would realise better than Stone how intrigued the public would have been to learn that suspicion of having committed the murder was pointing to a former officer of the Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard, and that one, who in his time had trailed many murderers, was now most unpleasantly in the limelight in
