I have been thinking the matter over and I now recall that Ling Chu was unusually silent after he had seen Lyne.

He has admitted to me that he has been to Lyne's Store and in fact has been pursuing inquiries there.

We happened to be discussing the possibility of Miss Rider committing the murder and Ling Chu told me that Miss Rider could not drive a motor-car and when I questioned him as to how he knew this, he told me that he had made several inquiries at the Store.

This I knew nothing about.
"Here is another curious fact," Tarling went on.

"I have always been under the impression that Ling Chu did not speak English, except a few words of 'pigeon' that Chinamen pick up through mixing with foreign devils.