to be heard before the House of Lords next week ...
and now the claimant was murdered ...

he was very wealthy, too.

Thus they talked; then the first voice, which seemed to dominate all the others, broke in: "It was thought to be suicide at first, but I see by tonight's paper that his daughter is suspected.

She has disappeared, and is supposed to have fled to London.

What are girls coming to--always shooting somebody or somebody shooting them! It's the war, I suppose...." The shock of that double disclosure had been almost too much to bear.