Chapter 6
CHIEF INSPECTOR WILKINS was walking up and down the arrival platform of Eastrepps Station. He was rather dreading the next quarter of an hour. Lord and Lady Steyning were due to arrive, and he had arrested their only son on a charge of murder. A painful business. Otherwise, however, nothing could be better. He had laid the Eastrepps Evil, and congratulations had come to him over the telephone from the Chief High Commissioner. This case would add appreciably to his reputation.
Meanwhile, he must do all he could for the Steynings. He had, indeed, received a note to that effect from the private secretary of no less a person than the Home Secretary himself. He was asked to help them in every possible way consistent with the demands of justice. Presumably they would wish the necessa
