Stillman yesterday; at first he was inclined to assume a somewhat
similar position."
"But the broken and cut portraits?" questioned Fuller.
Ashton-Kirk smiled a little.
"Probably I shall be able to properly account for them when I return
from a little trip that I am about to take to-day," said he. "That
is," as a sort of afterthought, "if some things turn out as I think
they will."
Fuller unfolded the newspaper that he had brought in.
"It is a late edition of the _Star_," he said. "The paper seems to
have scored a beat, for it has some developments that may put a
different face upon everything."
Ashton-Kirk took the sheet, and as he glanced at the flaring
headlines, he whistled softly. The lines read:
"MYSTERIOUS WOMAN IN A MOTOR CAR!
"She Visits 478 Christie Place on the Night of Murder!
"DID A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN'S HAND DEAL THE DEADLY BLOW?
"A New Element Added to the Hume Sensation!"
"The _Star_ man seems to have struck up an acquaintance with Sams,"
said Ashton-Kirk, with interest. He thought for a moment, and then
added to Fuller:
"Tell Stumph when Miss Edyth Vale arrives to show her here at once."
"Oh, you have been expecting her then?"
"No: I have not.
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