Pending this return, Jennings sorted his evidence.
Then he was surprised to receive a letter from Mrs.Herne, stating that she had returned to her place at Hampstead, and asking him to call.

"I understand from Mr.Clancy," wrote Mrs.Herne, "that you wish to see me in connection with the death of my poor friend.

I shall beat home to-morrow at four." Then followed the signature, and Jennings put away the note with a rather disappointed feeling.

If he was right in suspecting Mrs.Herne, she certainly felt little fear, else she would have declined to see him.

After all, his supposition that the two women and the four men formed a gang of coiners, who worked in the unfinished house, might turn out to be wrong.