12/28 17, and, after a slight delay, was admitted. A trivial mystery had developed along strictly orthodox lines. A rather good-looking and distinctly well-dressed lady, a Mrs.Lester, occupied No.17.She lived alone, too, he believed. At any rate, he had never seen any other person, except an elderly servant, enter or leave the opposite flat, and he had encountered the tenant herself so seldom that he was not quite certain of recognizing her apart from the environment of the staircase which provided their occasional meeting place. Romance evidently denied her magic presence to one who wooed her assiduously by his pen. |