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“She didn’t say she had”

“But she didn’t say she’d come by air, did she?”

“No,” Bridget agreed “But why should she come back by boat and train instead of by air?”

“Well, if she had found out what she wanted to know and had had nowhere to stay, she ht Mail”

“Why, I suppose she ht”

Davy smiled faintly

“I don’t suppose you young ladies,” he said, “think of going anywhere except in ter, do you, nowadays?”

“I suppose we don’t really,” agreed Bridget

“Anyway, she caland Then what happened? Did she co you up?”

“She rang up”

“What time of day?”

“Oh, in thesometime Yes, it must have been about eleven or twelve o’clock, I think”

“And she said, what?”

“Well, she just asked if everything was all right”

“And was it?”

“No, it wasn’t, because, you see, Mrs Melford had rung up and Mus had been very difficult and I hadn’t knohat to say So Elvira said she would not co up her cousin Mildred and try to fix up some story or other”

“And that’s all that you can remember?”

“That’s all,” said Bridget, ht of Mr Bollard and the bracelet That was certainly a thing she was not going to tell Chief-Inspector Davy Father knew quite well that so kept fro pertinent to his inquiry He asked again:

“You think your friend was really frightened of so?”

“Yes I do”

“Did she mention it to you or did you mention it to her?”

“Oh, I asked her outright At first she said no and then she adhtened And I know she was,” went on Bridget violently “She was in danger She was quite sure of it But I don’t knohy or how or anything about it”

“Your surety on this point relates to that particularshe had come back from Ireland?”

“Yes Yes, that’s when I was so sure about it”

“On the ht have come back on the Irish Mail?”

“I don’t think it’s very likely that she did Why don’t you ask her?”

“I probably shall do in the end But I don’t want to call attention to that point Not at the erous for her”

Bridget opened round eyes

“What do you mean?”

“You ht, or rather the early , of the Irish Mail robbery”

“Do youabout it?”

“I agree it’s unlikely,” said Father “But it just occurred toor soht have occurred connected with the Irish Mail She ht have put her in danger”

“Oh!” said Bridget She thought it over “You mean—someone she kneas mixed-up in the robbery”

Chief-Inspector Davy got up

“I think that’s all,” he said “Sure there’s nothing more you can tell me? Nowhere where your friend went that day? Or the day before?”

Again visions of Mr Bollard and the Bond Street shop rose before Bridget’s eyes

“No,” she said

“I think there is so you haven’t told me,” said Chief-Inspector Davy

Bridget grasped thankfully at a straw

“Oh, I forgot,” she said “Yes I o to so”

“Oh, she went to some lawyers ere her trustees I don’t suppose you know their name?”

“Their naet “Lots of naht”

“I see And she wanted to find out so, did she?”

“She wanted to kno et

Inspector Davy’s eyebrows rose

“Indeed!” he said “Interesting Why didn’t she know herself?”