Who Murdered Reynard

was not an entire success, for wh

m leave more than an hour and a half later. Following a morning spent with Myra among Paris shops, this seemed to suggest a degree of intimacy which exceeded fact, and its apparent significance was not lessened when an allu

th a degree of coolness he had not experienced previously. Irene was vexed by the doubt which is more fretting than certainty. Her father

g between them having the closeness which will come of single association. I

the young fool can see in t

replied lightly: "Oh, I don't know! There's a lot of men who don't like

xt comer, and stood there until a vehicle drew up at the pavement. It was a taxi for public hire, but no word passed between him

had been before, up a straight path that lengthened narrowly beneath meeting boughs, crossed a wide lawn, and came t

orse signal on the french window, which prom

hook hands with a short, rather plump Frenchman, who greeted him with an

his own. He indicated wine and cigars on a low table at Kindell's side. Al

Kindell's face as he asked: "You

ol, only accent and an occasional idiosyncrasy of co

s how it lo

yra's request, and of the parcel which

erwise, he would not have risen to be a departmental head of the Bureau de S?ret?, nor would he have been the poli

e reply: "You think it is as simple as that? . . . Well, who knows!" He became silent, gnawing a moustache which seemed a size to

ooks a walkover now to me, unless they get frightened, and jib. If you think that's likely, I suppose it would be better to r

he chewed the doubt in his own mind. Kindell thought the little Frenc

methods, he would have said, are no less effective because they move along straighter paths. But he knew Reynard's reputation,

a rotten mistake; and a lot worse if they don't. No, we must go on. Let the woman know th

underlying sarcasm, as though Reynard thought that hard things were beyond his power? It seemed undeserved. So far he had done

eve he does.

asked you to use

't been ment

here's t

Thurlows' baggage w

they would attempt any serious smuggling, and their declarations would normally be accepted without much interference. if any, with the contents of their trunks. Going

here sarcasm in this wordin

hat I shouldn't be under sus

no suspicion themselves. Otherwise, h

cornered, it may be

ust hope it is." But there w

on, even if I'm to be

ht was - how hard it is to tell how dull these stolid English actually a

ng a left-hand way, until a taxi should pick him up, as, at that time, it would be certain to do. Well, everyone to his own metho