CHAPTER 11"You sent for me, inspector." Harbord had just entered the inspector's private room at Scotland Yard.
"Yes, I want to consult with you as to our next step in the Charmian Karslake case. As far as I can see we are at a regular deadlock. Those damned newspapers are on to us too. Lists of undiscovered murders—police failures. Is our detective system inferior to that of France? I could tell them that, if they keep up an infernal outcry every time we question witnesses, there will be a good many more criminals going about unpunished."
By which Harbord understood that the inspector was more upset over the Hepton Abbey case than he wished to appear.
"It is a difficult case," he agreed; "whichever way one goes one finds oneself up against some nasty snag or another. How did you get on
