Who Murdered Reynard

Professor Blinkwell said easily, "that I ha

erence to the rolls and coffee which the H?tel Splendide usually served for the first meal of the day. Then she said, "I know how clever you are; and, of cou

companion's intellectual inferiority, "is because you foolishly presume that danger is incr

there is no form of communication that cannot be tapped, no code that cannot be rea

ere been sufficient reason, but it is certain that she did not attempt to do so. She took

s at all. You've often told me that you've no concern with what happens until you

utually undesirable, and is not encouraged by the head of the firm. But now that th

hat that was on a cha

so that he can be kept under arrest at a ti

ey treat you in

o cautious, to try, even if such a thought should enter their heads, which it is not reasonable to suppose. W

e against a preposterous suggestion. But his niece was sensitive to the resentment which lay beneath the controlled suavity of a

e sufficient care to avoid the

I didn't m

We kill each other in a stolid efficient manner, but they will r

onfidence in connection with the international drug trafficking of which he largely controlled the distribution in the British Isles, at least so far as was necessary to enable her to act with intelligence in dealing with certain accoun

rface of her mind before this conversation commenced. "I saw Will Kind

and the Professor, who was only vaguely aware of the existence of the young man she

man of go

Sparshott

character,

call him a

stantia

bean that he

s the good sense to be shall we say, i

. That's wh

s affections are not recip

e to have to get

d his niece very well, and she understood him, if not equally, a

's impecunious and apparently idle cousin, though her attitude towards

ermuch whose hand might be smoothing her fur, and without desiring any more intimate assoc

d anything which had been spoken aloud, when she broke the silence

s Thurlow, doesn't he?

xactly what the relationship is. But I know that when they

doesn't ma

se that Professor Blinkwell said: "You'd better not tire yourself trying to get o

I ask

ct of rising, resumed his seat. He offered his cigarette-case to hi

ter a moment of thoughtful silence, "that you have some very valuable jewellery, of the existence o

es

. You will have to declare it to the Customs, and perhaps pay duty upon it, which you could ha

half-mutinous expression upon Myra's attractive, but rather heav

he began. "I didn't think

hat are you supposing that you di

. Kindell to smuggle it through,

that within the next two days, but don't ask him to do any smuggling on your behalf, and don't agree to any offer that

is niece's face. She looked half puzzled and half relieve

lently, if you try,

allet at the same time, from which he dre

hopping now you're here," he s

ever run any risks, and I shouldn't ask you to do anythi

certain illicit drugs for the past five years, without evidence of the faintest suspicion being directed towards himself. Had he not told her more than once before that she would

ot of a dangerous kind. Even had it been true, there

usand francs. She was pleased at that, but she saw by the magnitude of the bribe, that her un

houghtful for the next ten minutes, and then picked up the te