"How very, very horrible!" "Yes, horrible indeed! But why I've come here to-day, Blanche, is to tell you that to-morrow Lionel Varick will be arrested on the charge of murder.

I have come to say that you and Bubbles must leave Wyndfell Hall this afternoon." Blanche hardly heard what he was saying.

She was absorbed in the horror and in the amazement of the story he had just told her, and in what was going to happen to-morrow to the man who had been for so long her familiar friend.
"It is an immense relief to me to hear that you never even saw the late Mrs.Varick." Mark Gifford went on: "I was afraid that you might have been mixed up with this dreadful business; that he might have used you in some way." Blanche shook her head, and he went on, musingly: "There were two ladies living next door to the house at Redsands where the poor woman was done to death.

They, I expect, will have to give evidence, at least I know that one of them will, a certain Miss--Miss-- ?" "Brabazon ?" supplied Blanche quickly.
"Yes, that's the name! A certain Miss Brabazon was a great deal with Mrs.Varick.She seems to have been an intimate friend of both the husband and wife.

She used to go out with Varick for motor drives.