because she could not think why he did not follow Miss Kent after giving her the paper." "Of course, Martha thought of something bad," sniffed Mrs. Parry; "no doubt she believed that the two had arranged to meet. So the tall man went out ten minutes afterwards. What about Anne?" "She was a few pews behind, and apparently inattentive, but a small girl called Cissy Jinks——" "A most precocious child," interpolated the lady. "She is smart," admitted Steel. "Well, she declares that Miss Denham was watching the tall man all the time. Whether she saw him give the paper to Miss Kent no one seems to know; I think myself she must have done so, if she was as watchful as Cissy Jinks declares. Moreover, she followed the tall man when he went out." "Immediately?"[Pg 62] [Pg 62] "Five minutes afterwards." "Ha! Then it was a quarter of an hour before she followed Daisy. Humph! Didn't Trim see them come out of the church?" "The groom? No, he was at the lych-gate with the car, and the snow was falling fast; besides, the night was so dark that he could see nothing. The first intimation he had of Miss Denham was when she came through the lych-gate to tell him that his master was with Miss Kent on the way to The Elms and wished to see him. Trim followed, and left her in charge of the car. When he was gone she went off, leaving the body of the girl behind her. The case is dead against her." "As you make it out, it certainly is," said Mrs. Parry scathingly. "But what about the tall man—what became of him?" "He has vanished, and no one seems to know anything about him." "Ha!" said the old lady, with satisfaction; "well, I can enlighten you on that point. He was the man who called to see Mr. Morley, and who left just before Anne entered the library." "Are you sure Morley said nothing about that?" "Morley can hold his tongue when necessary," said the old lady dryly. "Yes, that was the man. The footman at The Elms told me that Mr. Morley's visitor wore a great-coat and a white scarf." "The same dress," murmured Steel,
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