Chapter 6“CHLOE PYE DIES TRAGICALLY
“BRILLIANT YOUNG DANCER MEETS WITH FATAL MISHAP
“At a little after ten o’clock this evening Miss Chloe Pye, who only last night had made a successful return to the London stage in The Buffer at the Argosy Theatre, fell to her death beneath the wheels of an on-coming motorcar. The accident happened at the country estate of Mr. Jimmy Sutane, where she had been spending the week-end. Mr. Sutane, who was driving the car when the fatal incident occurred, is prostrated with shock.
“And I don’t see we can say any more than that, do you? It gives it to them in one. Of course it’ll bring them down on us like a cloud of hornets. Still, they’d come anyway.”
Dick Poyser looked up from the bureau in the living room and spoke with his fountain pen hovering. Sock,
