CHAPTER 12"If you please, my lord, Inspector Stoddart would like to speak to your lordship."
Lord Medchester was idly knocking the balls about in the billiard-room by himself. He looked up with an air of relief.
"Show him in! Hello, inspector!" as Stoddart appeared.
"Good evening, Lord Medchester." The inspector hesitated a moment. "I asked to see you," he went on at last, "because I understand that Superintendent Mayer had a long interview with you this morning."
Lord Medchester frowned. "Shouldn't call it a long interview myself. He wanted to use my phone—as a matter of fact, it was to send a trunk call through to you, I believe. And he seemed a bit excited and beside himself, don't you know. He'd got an idea he'd found a clue to Robert Saunderson's murderer. But he was in a desperat
