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"Yesterday you have a visit a visit of a professional nature from Edyth Vale. Last night she strangely disappears for a time. At a most unconventional hour this morning I find you at her door. Then I learn that you are on your way to look into the details of a murder that you had just heard of somehow.
"The Star man seems to have struck up an acquaintance with Sams," said Ashton-Kirk, with interest. He thought for a moment, and then added to Fuller: "Tell Stumph when Miss Edyth Vale arrives to show her here at once." "Oh, you have been expecting her then?" "No: I have not. But I am now." After Fuller left the room, the investigator turned eagerly to the Star's leaded narrative.
Nothing had occurred to equal it in sensation; and the huge headings flared across the front pages, undiminished and undismayed. "Why," screamed the Standard, in a perfect frenzy of letter press, "did Miss Edyth Vale visit Hume on the night of the murder?"
No, I don't know what it is about; but judging from her manner, it is something of no little consequence." "She sent you to prepare the way for her, then?" "Yes. It is Miss Edyth Vale, daughter of James Vale, the 'Structural Steel King, you remember they used to call him before he died a few years ago.
He looked at a clock that ticked solemnly upon a shelf. "We have half an hour to reach my place and dress," he said. "I'm afraid that we'll be late, and that Edouard will be annoyed. His cookery is so exquisitely timed that it is scarcely the better for delay." "Wait a minute," said Pendleton, grasping his friend's arm. "What part did Edyth Miss Vale play in all this?
"But I have found, through experience, that there must be no loose ends left to hang. Such things are treacherous; you never know when they'll trip you up and upset all your calculations." He paused a moment and regarded his friend steadfastly. Then he continued. "But, just now, I think we had better not trouble ourselves about Edyth Vale and Allan Morris.
In to-morrow's Star there will be a portrait of Edyth four columns wide and eight inches high.
Pendleton has been kind enough to arrange this interview at my request; and I desire to consult you upon a most important matter a very private matter." Pendleton caught the hesitating glance which she threw at him and reached for his hat. "Edyth," said he, "after all I have done for you, this is very distressing. I had not expected to be bundled out in this manner."
Ashton-Kirk looked swiftly into Locke's face as he read this; the expression was unmistakable, and the investigator leaped to his feet. But the mute uttered a strange parrot-like cry evidently the same that Edyth heard that night in Christie Place and Ashton-Kirk saw his hand go swiftly to a button at one side of the work-bench.
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