The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-02-21
Chapter IA
ABOUT THE BISHOP

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ABOUT THE BISHOP
"ONES RICH" said the Inspector.
~ Photograph of his sister. #
was She came down and identified
him."
How absurd to say there were
threei"
"Oh, that's easy, your ladyship
These newspaper reporters some
times exaggerate, and sometimes
they get the whole thing wrong"
81 know" said frankie. "I've
heard the widest stories" She
paused a moment. then drew freely
on her imagination. "I've heard
that his pockets were stuffed with
papers proving him to be Bolshevik
agent. And there's another story
that his pockets were full Of dope.
and another again about his having
pockets full of counterfeit bank
notes."
The Inspector laughed heartily.
That's a good one"
81 suppose really he had just the
usual things in his pockets?"
"And very few at that. A hand.
kerchief. not marked. Some loose
change. packet Of cigarets and a
couple Of Treasury, notes-loose.
not in a case. No letters. We'd have
had job to identify him II 1t hadn't
been for the photo. Providential,
you might call it."
IL WONDER" said frankie.
In view of her private knowledge,
she considered "providential" a
slngularly inapposite word. She
changed the conversation.
IL went to see Mr.. Jones. the
Wears son, yesterday. The one
who's been poisoned. What an ex.
traordinary thing that vast"
"Ah!" said the Inspector. "Now
that is extraordinary, If you like.
Never heard of anything like It hap.
pening before. A nice young gentle
man without an enemy in the world,
or so you'd say. You know. Lady
Frances. there are some queer Gus
toners going about. All the same |
never heard Of homicidal maniac
xvh0 aofod i,,ct fHic uov,p
as there any. clue at all to who
: did it?" frankie was all wide-eyed
inquiry. Its so interesting to hear
all this" she added.
The Inspector swelled with gratifl4
cation. He enjoyed this friendly con-
versation with an Earl's daughter.
Nothing stuck up or snobbish about
Lady Frances.
There was car seen in the vicin.
ity." said the Inspector. "Dark-blue
Talbot. A man on Locks Corner
reported dark-blue Talbot No. GG
1882 passed going direction st. 3D.
tolph's.
"And you think"
EGG 1882 is the number of the
Bishop of st. Botolph's car"
frankie toyed for a minute or two
with the idea of a homicidal bishop
who offered sacrifices Of clergymen's
sons but rejected it with a sigh.
You don't suspect the Bishop. l
suppose?" she said.
"We've found out that the
Bishops car never left the Palace
garage that afternoon"
$50 it was a false number
Eyes. We've got that to go on all
right"
With expressions of admiration
frankie took her leave. She made
no damping remark. but she thought
to herself. There must be a large
number of dark-blue' Talbots in
England"
On her return home she took a
directory of MarchboIt from its
place on the writing-table in the
library and removed.it, to her own
room. She worked over 1T for some
hours. The result was not satisfac.
tory. There were four hundred and
eighty-two Evanses in Marchbolt.
"Damn!" said frankie.
She began to make plans for the
future.
4 WEEK later Bobby had joined
\ Badger IL London. He had re-
ceived several enigmatical commu-
nications from frankie. mostly in
such an illegible scrawl that he was
lutte unable to do more than guess
at their meaning.
Meanwhile the young man re-
manned very strictly on his guard.
The effect of eight grains of morphia
was to render their taker extremely
suspicious of food and drink and had
also induced him to bring to London
a service revolver, the possession of
which was daA4enely irksome to
him.
He was 3tust beginning to feel that
the whols-Ekisg bad been an ex-
tFavagant shtmsr Re when Frank