The Dower House Mystery
“He had a carriage to himself—and plenty to think about. The moment in the office when Piggy had asked him in jest, “You don’t happen to have come across a fair damsel called alternatively Mlle. Anaïs and Flash Annie?—she’s up to her neck in the note forging business,” had been a moment of revelation. He had been within an ace of telling Piggy everything—the mysterious happenings at the Dower House; his fears lest Annie Brown should be mixed up in them in such a way as to bring fresh shame and s...orrow on poor old Brownie—when Piggy himself had stopped him with two words, a name—Flash Annie. It was under that name that he had traced Annie Brown to Paris ten years ago and lost her there. That she was found, or half found now, he had no doubt. “Up to her neck in the note forging business”—oh, Lord, poor Brownie!
The events of the last few days began to emerge from the confusion which had veiled them, began to cohere and become intelligible. If Annie Brown were really up to her neck in the note forging business, what more convenient place for the production of those notes than the lonely Dower House with its reputation for being haunted?MoreLess
The events of the last few days began to emerge from the confusion which had veiled them, began to cohere and become intelligible. If Annie Brown were really up to her neck in the note forging business, what more convenient place for the production of those notes than the lonely Dower House with its reputation for being haunted?MoreLess
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