CHAPTER XIV

/Her/ head in a whirl, Margaret Belman had stepped into the cab that was waiting at the door of Larmes Keep. The door was immediately slammed behind her, and the cab moved off. She saw her companion: he had shrunk into a corner of the landau, and greeted her with a little embarrassed grin. He did not speak until the cab was some distance from the house. “My name’s Gray,” he said. “Mr. Reeder hadn’t a chance of introducing me. Sergeant Gray, C.I.D.” “Mr. Gray, what does all this mean? This instrument I am to get…?” …