Chapter 20
HE DID NOT tell the girl about Ella, but left her almost immediately afterwards.
'What time do you breakfast?' he asked, and when she told him nine, he promised to come. 'I shall be up all night on this case, and maybe I shall think of something I want to ask you.'
He was gone before she realised that the one piece of information she wished to give to him had entirely slipped from her memory.
By the time he got back to the house he found it practically in police occupation, and he had some difficulty in getting a note through to Clarke. Eventually he was admitted. Mr. Beale had gone up to his room, rather overcome, the staid butler told him, by the events of the evening. The body had been removed, he was relieved to find, as he passed through the study and joined the little
