"
"Burglary?" said Birchill "Anything else?"
"That will do for the present," replied the inspector. "We may find it
necessary to charge you with a more serious crime later."
"Well, all I can say is that you've got the wrong man. But that is
nothing new for you chaps," he added with a sneer.
"Surely you are not going to charge him with the murder?" said the girl
imploringly.
The inspector's reply was merely to warn the prisoner that anything he
said might be used in evidence against him at his trial.
"He had nothing whatever to do with it--he knows nothing about it,"
protested the girl. "If you let him go I'll tell you who murdered
Sir Horace."
"Who murdered him?" asked the inspector.
"Hill," was the reply.
CHAPTER XIII
Doris Fanning got off a Holborn tram at King's Cross, and with a hasty
glance round her as if to make sure she was not followed, walked at a
rapid pace across the street in the direction of Caledonian Road. She
walked up that busy thoroughfare at the same quick gait for some minutes,
then turned into a narrow street and, with another suspicious look around
her, stopped at the doorway of a small shop a short distance down.
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