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Having been introduced to Mrs Holbrook -- a pleasant-fated old lady in a white-laced cap with mauve ribbons -- I made excuse to "Miss Stebbing" to leave, and took train a quarter of an hour later back to St Fillans. From the village post-office I sent an urgent wire to Hartwig to go again to Lower Clapton, see Danilovitch, explain how Her Highness had discovered the plot against her, and assure him that if any attempt were male, proof of his treachery would be placed at once before his "comrades."
I called at the hotel and inquired for Mr Gregory, but was informed that he was out fishing. But though I lunched there and waited till evening, yet he did not return.