CHAPTER XIV.
Mr.Flexen awoke next morning hopeful of news of the mysterious woman.
But the letters addressed to him at the Castle and those brought over from the office of the Chief Constable at Low Wycombe brought none.

After breakfast, still hopeful, he telephoned to Scotland Yard.

No information had reached it.
He perceived clearly that the case was at a deadlock till he had that information.

He was sure that it would come sooner or later, possibly from the neighbourhood, more probably from London.

It was always possible that Mr.Carrington might discover that some other lawyer had handled an entanglement for Lord Loudwater.