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Updated: May 18, 2025
They walked on this occasion, and, about an hour later, arrived at a large, corner house in Berford Place. A tall and magnificently built footman opened the door for them, and they were handed into a drawing room much grander than the one Robin sometimes glanced into as she passed it, when she was at home.
Later, Coombe learned from the mam with the steady, blunt-featured face, that she had crossed the Channel on a night boat not many hours after Von Hillern had walked away from Berford Place.
Her peril seemed to force her thought to delve into unknown dark places in her memory and dig up horrors she had forgotten newspaper stories of crime, old melodramas and mystery romances, in which people disappeared and were long afterwards found buried under floors or in cellars. It was said that the Berford Place houses, winch were old ones, had enormous cellars under them.
She did not notice the number. There is no Lady Etynge and there is no 97A in Berford Place! That is why I came here." The man who had stood aside, stepped forward again. It was as if he answered some sign, though Lord Coombe at the moment crossed the hearth and rang the bell. "Scotland Yard knows that, ma'am," said the man.
Robin thought she might have the good fortune to please her. She was to go to Lady Etynge's house to tea sine afternoon and be shown the rooms prepared for Helene. She thought the mother charming." "Did she mention the address?" Coombe asked at once. "The house was in Berford Place-a large house at a corner. She chanced to see Lady Etynge go into it one day or we should not have known.
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