She
might indeed be hiding somewhere perplexingly close at hand; and most
likely Mark held the clue!
Jimmy lost no time in setting to work in earnest. In the first place,
he inserted advertisements in the halfpenny evening papers and such of
their morning contemporaries as made a special feature of betting news.
These he thought would be most in favour amongst taxi-cab drivers, and,
of course, the important thing was to discover the man who had driven
"a lady and her luggage from No. 5, Golfney Place" that fateful
afternoon.
Not content with this, Jimmy motored to Sandbay, and stopping at a
stationer's shop, succeeded in purchasing a local Directory. In this
he found the name of "Dobson, the Misses," who lived at No. 8, Downside
Road. The house was named "Fairbank." Thither Jimmy drove at once,
and few thoroughfares could have had a more sedately retired
appearance. A wide, gravelled roadway, smoothly rolled, with red-brick
villas all precisely alike on one side, and yellow-brick villas,
equally uniform, on the other.
There must have been fewer than the average number of children in the
neighbourhood, and these must have been unusually silent and well
conducted.
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