She has not entirely forsaken me." Gerridge with a shrug turned sharply towards the door.

"I take it that you wouldn't object to knowing all the messenger can tell you ?" "No, no.

Question him.

Find out whether she gave this to him with her own hand." Gerridge obeyed this injunction, but was told in reply that the note had been given him to deliver by a clerk in the hotel lobby.

He could tell nothing about the lady.
This was unsatisfactory enough; but the man who had influenced her to this step had been placed under surveillance.