Chapter XXI

LORD PETER CALLS A BLUFF ‘It is new to me,’ said Lord Peter, glancing from the back window of the taxi at the other taxi which was following them, ‘to be shadowed by the police, but it amuses them and doesn’t hurt us.’ He was revolving ways and means of proof in his mind. Unhappily, all the evidence in favour of Ann Dorland was evidence against her as well—except, indeed, the letter to Pritchard. Damn Penberthy! The best that could be hoped for now was that the girl should escape from public inquiry with a verdict …