“She was here again three days ago,” Mrs Bentley added. “And she seems so eager to see Mr Roddy.”
“I must see Miss Manners,” Elma shouted to the deaf old woman. “You have no idea where she lives, I suppose?”
“No. I think she comes from London.”
“Well, next time she comes let me know at once. Or better, bring her up to the Towers to see me. It is most important that I should see her.”
Mrs Bentley promised, and Elma, returning to the Towers, told her father of Edna’s reappearance. Old Mr Sandys was equally surprised and equally eager to meet her. Where, they wondered, had she been all those months. He telephoned at once to the boarding-house in Powis Square, Bayswater, at which she had lived before her sudden disappearance, but could obtain no news of her whereabouts.
Chapter Twenty Six.
The Unknown Hand.
What occurred at Guildford station on the morning when Roddy went to meet his friend Barclay by appointment was distinctly curious.