CHAPTER 21"One gets some curious side-lights on Charmian Karslake's character as one goes on," the inspector said musingly.
He and Harbord had returned to the Yard after their encounter with Mrs. Sparrow, and had gone straight to Stoddart's office. "Did she know the real name of the man she married when she was married, or did she only find it out afterwards?"
"When she got to the Abbey, do you mean?" Harbord hazarded.
"No, she knew before then. Have you forgotten the cuttings? Besides, it is inconceivable that she should have been deceived—she, Hepton born, and living within a mile of Hepton Abbey. You remember her brother Bert recognized Dicky Penn-Moreton at once. Besides, Peter Hailsham lived quite near the Gossetts on the Canal bank."
"She would be less likely to recognize Larpent
