The Hunt Ball Mystery

Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Mary Meehan
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
BY SIR WILLIAM MAGNAY, Bt.
Author of A Prince of Lovers, The Mystery of the Unicorn, etc., etc.
1918
Contents
Chap
I'm afraid it must have gone on in the van, sir.
Gone on! Hugh Gifford exclaimed angrily. But you had no business to send the train on till all the luggage was put out.
The guard told me that all the luggage for Branchester was out, the porter protested deprecatingly. You see, sir, the train was nearly twenty minutes late, and in his hurry to get off he must have overlooked your suit-case.
The very thing I wanted most, the owner returned. I say, Kelson, he went on, addressing a tall, soldierly man who strolled up, a nice thing has happened; the train has gone off with my evening clothes.
Kelson whistled. Are you sure?