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It has been stated that both the detectives and other officers of the police force had been searching for Meta Dalbert for several days without success; and yet the very night on which Bruce and Seymour secured the body of Raymond Ballantyne, that lady was in the vicinity of 'Storm-Cliff Towers.'
She had not heard of the arrest of Skinner that morning, and not knowing that the police were on her track she had come out to Storm-Cliff in the hope of meeting with Skinner, there being important reasons why she wished to see him at once.