With some trouble they succeeded in getting the case in and Deede
Dawson covered it carefully with a big rug.

When he had done so he stepped back.

"Ready, Ella?" he said.

"Yes," answered the girl's soft and low voice that already Dunn
could have sworn to amidst a thousand others.



CHAPTER X

THE NEW GARDENER


"Go ahead, then," said Deede Dawson, and the great car with its
terrible burden shot away into the night.

For a moment or two Deede Dawson stood looking after it, and then
he turned and walked slowly towards the house, and mechanically Dunn
followed, the sole thought in his mind, the one idea of which he was
conscious, that of Ella driving away into the darkness with the dead
body of his murdered friend in the car behind her.

Did she--know? he asked himself. Or was she ignorant of what it
was she had with her?

It seemed to him that that question, hammering itself so awfully