CHAPTER 20Inspector Stoddart, sitting at his desk at Scotland Yard, had decided to confront Lady Medchester with Garwood's statement—that he had seen her in the gardens at Holford on the night and about the time of Robert Saunderson's murder.
He had always had a suspicion she knew more than she had admitted, and congratulated himself on the brain-wave that had prompted the little trap he laid for her, and for which he had invoked Anne's innocent connivance. He had been certain she knew something about those beads; he had discovered by his ruse she did not know so much as she thought she did. She had imagined they belonged to Anne.
The inspector had no love for Lady Medchester. He felt instinctively hers was a mean mind, secretive and vindictive. Where it served her purpose he suspected h
