The Man Who Knew by Fred M. White

IT was late in the afternoon after Lashbrook's visit to the Wanderlust Club that he found a note waiting for him at his lodgings from Mary Heaton. In it she explained that she would be unable to meet him, as arranged, on the Monday, as she had to go out of town on business, but perhaps, if he was not otherwise engaged that night, he might find it possible to call round at her rooms and thus put forward the dinner and theatre engagement by a day or two.

Accordingly, a little after seven o'clock that evening, Lashbrook, nicely turned out in a jacket suit, found himself on the way to a quiet little restaurant in the neighbourhood of Soho, accompanied by Mary, who was looking her best in a fur coat and a small, close-fitting hat.