CHAPTER 4"I rang Sir Charles Stanyard up an hour ago, but he is not in town."
Inspector Stoddart was the speaker. He had been out for some time and had just returned. He was sitting before his desk in his room at Scotland Yard, and as he looked up at Harbord his expression was worried, troubled.
Harbord had also been out since early morning, pursuing a different line of investigation. He carried a small brown parcel, which he laid upon the inspector's desk. Stoddart did not take it up. Instead he sat back in his chair and drummed absently on the open flap of his desk as he looked up at Harbord.
"This case does not get any easier, Alfred."
"It does not, sir," his subordinate agreed with emphasis.
"I have just come from the lawyers, Weldon & Furnival of Spencer's Inn," Stoddart went on
