Chapter V.—Larose UnmaskedArriving back at the Abbey, the detective, avoiding the crowd assembled in the lounge, proceeded to make his way quickly up towards his room, in order to change his clothes as speedily as possible. At the top of the staircase, however, he came upon Lady Ardane with the little baronet and one of the nurses.
Stopping to reply to Lady Ardane's enquiry as to how the shoot had gone off, he made a quick movement of his head in the direction of her room to let her understand that he wanted to speak to her.
She took in at once what he wanted, and directing the nurse to take the child downstairs into the lounge turned back and motioned to the detective to follow her.
In her boudoir, with the door closed the detective told her quickly and in a very few words what had hap
