There's one thing you can do--there was a lady in here last night who took Room 265 and left it at midnight to go away in a motor-car which your night-porter got for her.

I particularly want to see the chambermaid who attended that lady.

Let me see her privately--I've a question to ask her." "She shall be sent up to your sitting-room as soon as I've found her," responded the manager.

"This is the servants' breakfast-hour, but--" "Send her up there after nine o'clock," said Allerdyke.

"In the meantime I've another inquiry to make elsewhere." He found Gaffney and sent him round to the garage from which Miss Celia Lennard had obtained her midnight car, with instructions to find the chauffeur who had driven her, and to get from him what information he could as to her movements subsequent to the rencontre at Howden.
"Don't excite his suspicions," said Allerdyke, "but pump him for any news he can give you.