CHAPTER VI

ACCUSATIONS By this time a number of the diners, attracted by the strange actions and excited voices of the two women, had crowded about them. The manager came hurrying up to inquire what the trouble was. “My handbag!” Mrs. Willoughby wailed. “Someone has taken it!” “Oh, there must be a mistake,” the manager assured her. “There’s no mistake. I left it on the table when I ran to the window at the sound of the crash. I couldn’t have had my back turned more than a minute. When I rushed back to the table my handbag was…