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 Clagne again early next morning. Fact is she came in here by herself. It was a pouring wet day, that she came in here in an old horseman's cape dripping with rain, and told me that she'd walked in from Mortover on her way to the station to catch a train to London—might she leave the cape with me? I have it now—she's not called for it yet."

"That was the next day, was it?" asked Wedgwood.

"The very next morning!" assented Mrs. Chipchase.

Wedgwood went away pondering deeply over this last bit of information. Assuredly, he thought, he was getting at something. Wraypoole and Janet Clagne had a long conversation in Mrs. Chipchase's tea-room one afternoon. On parting he was heard to say "Russell Square Tube, then, at six o'clock." Next morning Janet Clagne went by an early train to London. Now arose questions. Did Wraypoole precede her? Did he return to London as soon as he had had that interview with her at the confectioner's shop? Was it he and she who were to meet at the Russell Square Tube station at six o'clock? If so was that meeting on the evening of Wraypoole's murder?

He went slowly back to his hotel and turned into the smoking-room—to do more thinking.