“No, of course not. Well, if she does it again, will you please make an appointment with her, and then let me know about it at once? A call to Scotland Yard will always find me.”
Mr. Trigg promised that he would do this, and Parker took his leave.
“And now we know,” thought Parker as he returned home, “that somebody—an odd unscrupulous somebody—was making inquiries about great-nieces in 1925. A word to Miss Climpson, I fancy, is indicated—just to find out whether Mary Whittaker has a scar on her right hand, or whether I’ve got to hunt up any more solicitors.”
The hot streets seemed less oppressively oven-like than before. In fact, Parker was so cheered by his interview that he actually bestowed a cigarette-card upon the next urchin who accosted him.
Part III
THE MEDICO-LEGAL PROBLEM
“There’s not a crime
But takes its proper change out still in crime
If once rung on the counter of this world.”
E. B. Browning, Aurora Leigh