Chapter 27: Beginning at the Other End

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌​​‌​‌​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​​‌​‌​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌⁠Robert Audley walked slowly through the leafless grove, under the bare and shadowless trees in the gray February atmosphere, thinking as he went of the discovery he had just made.

"I have that in my pocket-book," he pondered, "which forms the connecting link between the woman whose death George Talboys read of in the Times newspaper and the woman who rules in my uncle's house. The history of Lucy G