CHAPTER XX

PHILIP REILLY TELLS A STRANGE STORY DURING the three days that followed I kept watch in Cornwall Road, haunting the neighbouring thoroughfares of Ladbroke Grove, Silchester Road, Ledbury Road, and Powis Square, watching the movements of Miss Bristowe, and ever on the alert for the coming of that tall, fair-moustached individual, as the man Purvis had been described. The girl whom I had found so charming went out often—once down to Catford to visit friends. Apparently she lived in apartments, and did her own shoppin…