Now that you are here you can make yourself useful." And Daisy reluctantly obeyed.

She wondered what it was her stepmother didn't want her to hear.
"I've something to tell you, Bunting." "Yes ?" He looked across uneasily.

"Yes, Ellen ?" "There's been another o' those murders.

But the police don't want anyone to know about it--not yet.

That's why Joe couldn't go over and fetch Daisy.