And he took her down to Bombay.
She was formally charged next morning before the stipendiary for the murder of her husband and remanded for a week.
She was remanded at eleven o'clock in the morning, and five minutes later the news was ticked off on the tape at the Taj Mahal Hotel.

Within another five minutes the news was brought upstairs to Thresk.

He had been fortunate.

He was in a huge hotel, where people flit through its rooms for a day and are gone the next, and no one is concerned with the doings of his neighbour, a place of arrival and departure like the platform of a great railway station.

There was no place in all Bombay where Thresk could so easily pass unnoticed.