“I don’t know yet. I want to know. Probably there is none. But I have traced prussic acid to Nora Lepley—”

“Gad!”

“And in a bottle that came from Grainger’s shop.”

“Good Lord!”

“Yes, it’s a queer development, isn’t it?”

“But—”

“I know absolutely nothing more than I have told you.”

Pepster nodded thoughtfully, then touched a bell.

“What is the next train for Midlington?” he asked of the police clerk who answered his summons.

CHAPTER XX
STILL MORE ABOUT BILLY CLEVEDON