She said: "But of course not." She smiled at him mischievously. "There might have been another reason. I might have seen you at the garage when you were so delightfully drunk, and fallen in love with you. Why not?"
O'Mara laughed. "That, of course, would have been an excellent reason," he said. "What concerned me now was how Volanon had got the idea into his head. Then I came to a conclusion. Somebody had telephoned him at the garage and told him that the drunken Philippe Garenne who had been working for him for months was a Nazi. He had selected that method of hiding from French justice; that he had disappeared because the French agent Taudrille was on his track. That story is confirmed by the fact that Taudrille's body is found at the bottom of a cliff near the place where Garenne is kn
