Chapter 11
The identity of the lady whom he had seen on the tower and afterwards heard singing was established the next day.
‘I have been thinking,’ said Miss Power, on meeting him, ‘that you may require a studio on the premises. If so, the room I showed you yesterday is at your service. If I employ Mr. Havill to compete with you I will offer him a similar one.’
Somerset did not decline; and she added, ‘In the same room you will find the handkerchief that was left on the tower.’
‘Ah, I saw that it was gone. Somebody brought it down?’
‘I did,’ she shyly remarked, looking up for a second under her shady hat-brim.
‘I am much obliged to you.’
‘O no. I went up last night to see where the accident happened, and there I found it. When you came up were you in search of it, or did you want m
