6: Robbing the Royal Mail
FOUR SQUARE JANE had committed a murder! It was incredible. All Peter Dawes' fine theories went by the board in that discovery. This was not the work of a society crook; it was not the work of a criminal philanthropist; there was evidence here of the most cold-blooded murder that it had been his business to investigate.
Summoned from his bed at three o'clock in the morning, Lord Claythorpe came to his office a greatly distressed man. He was shivering from sheer terror when he told the story of the securities which had been in the safe when he had left the office.
"And I was warned. I was warned!" he cried. "Poor Remington himself begged me not to do it. What a fool I am!"
"What was Remington doing here?" asked Peter.
The body of the murdered man had long sinc
