CHAPTER TWELVE
News ItemsAt noon next day Gamadge was finishing his breakfast in the library. Harold, stretched out on the chesterfield, read aloud from the morning paper:
AGED WOMAN KILLED BY FALL
Miss Julia Paxton, a resident of Tarrytown, was the victim of an unusual accident last night when…
“Mrs. Spiker didn’t make it?” asked Gamadge.
“She didn’t make it.” Harold looked up at Lady Audley, whom he had propped behind silver candlesticks on the chimney piece. “You’ll be in the news some day,” he told her. “ ‘Titled Englishwoman abducted, impersonated by illegitimate twin.’ ”
Theodore, still put out by the events of the night before, appeared in the doorway. He was closely followed by Lieutenant Nordhall.
“Lieutenant Nordhall to see you,” he said.
“Tell him I’m not at home.”
“You
