“Or more.”
“We wouldn’t have saved him, Fox, if we had caught the express.”
“No, sir.”
“If only I’d seen that book a little earlier. What have you got in there, Campbell?”
Campbell had taken a rolled-up towel from the top of the dressing-table.
“It just doesn’t make sense,” sakd Campbell. “My Gawd, sir, we found it in her pocket with the key of the room downstairs. It’s like one of these damn-fool stories.”
“ The Case of the Severed Hand? ”
“How did you know, sir?”
“Her nephew told me. I’ll see the thing later.”
“Mr. Alleyn expected it,” said Fox quickly.