“Then Susie disappeared,” Jack Smith added.
“And what did you do about it?” the Earl enquired.
“We asked the man who had staged the competition and he said that she was just staying with the other winners and would join us later,” Jack Smith answered.
“But we have not heard anything from her,” Mary Evans came in. “Although we tried to find her, the man is very difficult and when we did speak to him he was rude.”
“He did not suggest that you should join her?” the Earl asked.
Dalma knew the reason for his question.
Mary was fair-haired with light blue eyes, but she was not pretty. She had a very ordinary face, in fact, rather a dull one and her hair, although it was fair, was not golden like her own but drab and lifeless.
“If you ask me,” Jack Smith said, “either there was no competit
