ARNOLD SCENTS MYSTERY From the first, nothing about that evening was as Arnold had expected.

He took the tube to Hampstead station, and, the night being dry, he walked to Pelham Lodge without detriment to his carefully polished patent shoes.

The neighborhood was entirely strange to him and he was surprised to find that the house which was pointed out to him by a policeman was situated in grounds of not inconsiderable extent, and approached by a short drive.

Directly he rang the bell he was admitted not by a flamboyant parlormaid but by a quiet, sad-faced butler in plain, dark livery, who might have been major-domo to a duke.

The house was even larger than he had expected, and was handsomely furnished in an extremely subdued style.