Jon Hagadorn

"'Well, I don't really know.

He didn't go into details.

I gather it said, "'Beware,' and, "'Trouble is at hand,' and all those sort of things.'

But anyway, it was written from seven dials.

I distinctly remember his saying so.

He was going up to town to consult Scotland Yard about it.

"'Do you know, George?'

Bundle nodded.

She was well acquainted with that public-spirited cabinet minister, George Lomax, His Majesty's permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, who was shunned by many because of his inveterate habit of quoting from his public speeches in private.'

In allusion to his bulging eyeballs, he was known to many, Bill Eversley among others, as Cotters.

"'Tell me,' she said, "'was Cotters interested at all in Gerald Wade's death?'

"'Not that I have heard of.

He may have been, of course.'

Mondal said nothing for some minutes.

She was busily engaged in trying to remember the exact wording of the letter she had sent on to Lorraine Wade, and at the same time she was trying to picture what sort of a girl was this, to whom, apparently, Gerald Wade was so devoted.

The more she thought over it, the more it seemed to her that it was an unusual letter for a brother to write.

"'Did you say the Wade girl was Jerry's half-sister?'

she asked suddenly.

"'Well, of course, strictly speaking.

I suppose she isn't—wasn't, I mean, his sister at all.