A MINUTE later Ella came to the door to call them.
“Was that a car went past?” she asked, and they detected a note of anxiety in her tone.
“Yes,” said Elk, “it was a big car. Didn’t see who was in it, but it was a big car.”
Dick heard her sigh of relief.
“Will you come in, please?” she said. “Breakfast is waiting for you.”
They left half an hour later, and each man was so busy with his own thoughts that d**k did not speak until they were passing the villas where the body of Genter had been found. It was near Horsham that Genter was killed, he remembered with a little shudder. Outside of Horsham he himself had seen the dead man’s feet extended beyond the back of a motor-van. Hagn should die for that; whether he was Frog or not, he was party to that murder. As if reading his thoughts, E
