CHAPTER II

WHOSE PORTRAIT IS THIS? Malter himself opened the door of his small private hotel; a quiet, reserved man who looked like a retired butler. He was the sort of man who is slow of speech, and he had not replied to Matherfield's guarded inquiry about Mr. Robert Hannaford when a door in the little hall opened, and a girl appeared, who, hearing the inspector's question, immediately came forward as if in answer. Hetherwick recognised this girl. He had seen her only the previous afternoon in Fountain Court, in company wi…