CHAPTER 26Two days later, each with a bit of the story to tell, Inspector Stoddart and his companion were ushered into the library at Holford Hall, where Lord Medchester awaited them.
"I shall be interested to hear how you arrived at your conclusions, inspector," he remarked, motioning them to be seated. "To be quite frank, I never liked the woman—couldn't imagine what the devil my wife saw in her. But it's a bit of a shake-up to have a thing of that sort happen under your own roof—a damn sight worse than the murder, being a woman and all that," he finished vaguely.
"No need for you to go over the threads that led us nowhere," Stoddart began. "We'll follow up the main line of it. It seemed such a precious tangle when we began, bringing us up against a blank wall time and again. Where the
