CHAPTER FOURThen, as if a voice was guiding her, she knew the answer.
Quickly she put on her coat that she was carrying over her arm.
Going to the bed she took the pillow from it and then she opened E looked most like a rather flashily dressed commercial traveller.
her door and listened.
Downstairs she could hear Charlie Waters talking to the publican and she thought that he was asking for the port he had offered her.
On tiptoe she slipped down the stairs and past the kitchen where the publican’s wife was working.
There was no one in the yard and no sign of the ostler who had looked after her when she arrived.
When she then reached Apollo’s stall, she could see dimly that there was the fresh straw that she had paid for on the floor.
Quite a heap of straw that had not been needed wa
