Chapter VIII.—The Missing KerchiefIt was well that Dora had been so well buoyed up with hope by her interview with Larose, as upon her return to the Manor just in time for lunch she was to realise that the curtain was indeed being rung up for the presentation of the drama in which she might unhappily be cast for a most dreadful part.
Mrs. Rayneham had had several visitors, reporters who had come down from two London newspapers to work up an interesting story for their readers about the missing doctor, and a police sergeant from Norwich, accompanied by two plain-clothes detectives.
“The newspaper men were most inquisitive,” she said, “and I had to choke them off when they asked what I considered a lot of unnecessary questions. They actually wanted to know the name of all the visitors stay
