CHAPTER FOUR
“Here’s Mystery”
“A
cross
the face of the East Suffolk Courier and Hadleigh Argus, Fate’s moving finger writes, and not very grammatically either,” said Mr. Campion cheerfully to Guffy, who sat beside him in the back of his venerable Bentley thirty-six hours later.
Lugg was driving, and by his side Eager-Wright dozed peacefully.
Campion glanced at the paragraph in the local newspaper they had bought on the way down which had occasioned his remark. Its headline, “Mysterious Attack in Suffolk Village,” had caught his attention, and he re-read the few words below for the fourth or fifth time during the journey.
“Miss Harriet Huntingforest, a resident of Pontisbright, near Hadleigh, Suffolk, has been the victim of a remarkable attack by an intruder yesterday, who entered he
