“Nothing as yet, Marston; but who was the girl’s mother? Who was or is Lady Rellingham?”
“Did he marry the mother?”
“Quite likely. Let’s look it up. It must be before August, 1881. Come along down to Somerset House.”
Together the two men made the search, and found that early in 1880 John Rellingham, solicitor, had married Sarah Jane Manuel, daughter of Pedro Manuel of Dublin, hairdresser. His second marriage to Georgiana Drury, as they knew, had not taken place until 1890.
“That’s put the stopper on any Alvarez business, Tempest, at any rate.”
“It looks like it certainly.”
Tempest paid for another search ticket, and turned up the marriage of Lord Madeley. Lady Madeley had been married in the name of Eulalie Alvarez.
“I think we must put Yardley on to an investigation of Pedro Manuel and his family. That is obviously the thing to do.” “What earthly chance is there of his finding out anything?”
“Precious little, I’m afraid,” said the barrister. “But there’s one thing we might do, Marston. Bring that trust into court again, and paragraph it as an approaching case, and see if we can tempt the lady to turn up again.”
“I wonder if she would?”