CHAPTER XXXVII

THE HEIRESS MRS. EMMA WARD had told him practically all there was to tell about herself before the cab had drawn up at the entrance of the flat. It was she who had failed to register the birth of Diana and her twin sister, and this failure had, curiously enough, saved her life; for when the gang had discovered, as they did a few hours earlier than Larry, that Gordon Stuart had left an enormous fortune to the daughter whose existence he had discovered through an accidental meeting with the charwoman at Nottingham Pl…