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Rh  Who then?

 Margaret Schiller, the girl of enemy origin whose associations I have described to you.

 [A little annoyed.] I must ask you to explain yourself, Sir Malcolm.

 With pleasure. As I entered the apartment of Dr. Schiller this morning I collided with a young man who was coming out. It was Otto Schiller. He was in a hurry to be off, and in the course of some parley said he had to meet a train at Charing Cross at four o'clock.

 Well?  After he was gone, and while my officers were questioning the old lady, I looked round and found this telegram propped up on the mantelpiece. [Takes telegram from pocket and hands it to

 [Reading.] " Dover, 2.20 p.m. Margaret Schiller, Soho Square. Arrive Charing Cross at 4. Ask Otto to meet me.—" Well?

 Then Margaret Schiller herself came in, and I took particular note of her.