“Grand Annual Regatta and Horse Races,” said Lord Manton. “I’m a member of the committee, and so I know. Please excuse me interrupting you, Miss Blow, but in a case like this it’s as well to be perfectly accurate.”
“He informed the hotel-keeper in Clonmore——” said Miss Blow.
“I propose,” said Mr. Goddard, “that we send down for Jimmy O’Loughlin, and let him give his evidence himself.”
“That he intended to call on Lord Manton for a subscription and then go on to Rosivera to see what he could get from the man Red. Did he call here?”
“Certainly,” said Lord Manton. “I gave him a sovereign.”
“After that,” said Miss Blow, “he was seen no more. It seems to me perfectly obvious that he went on to Rosivera and was there murdered.”
Poor Mrs. Dick wailed again, and was again suppressed, this time very rapidly, by Miss Farquharson.
“There remains,” said Miss Blow, “the case of Dr. O’Grady; but before I go into that I have to inform you that there is another man missing.”
“My goodness!” said Lord Manton. “The thing is becoming a perfect epidemic. Who is it now?”