Chapter 9

“Probably,” he thought, “she’ll be back within half an hour. . . . It was rather a queer proceeding. . . . I didn’t care for that man, Welper. . . . But she was—unusually—ornamental. . . .” He shrugged his well-set shoulders and opened a volume on the Archæology of Guatemala. But he was aware of a faint perfume in the air. It came from her handkerchief in the satchel, and he found it difficult to concentrate his thoughts upon Guatemala. III The girl who disturbed the archæological reflections of Scott Whelan had ca…