learn the truth. There is a lot at the back of that murder,
Mallow."




CHAPTER XI

ON THE TRACK


Professor Le Beau kept a school of dancing in Pimlico, and
incessantly trained pupils for the stage. Many of them had
appeared with more or less success in the ballets at the
Empire and Alhambra, and he was widely known amongst
stage-struck aspirants as charging moderately and teaching in
a most painstaking manner. He thus made an income which, if
not large, was at least secure, and was assisted in the school
by his niece, Peggy Garthorne. She was the manager of his
house and looked after the money, otherwise the little
professor would never have been able to lay aside for the
future. But when the brother of the late Madame Le Beau--an
Englishwoman--died, his sister took charge of the orphan.
Now that Madame herself was dead, Peggy looked after the
professor out of gratitude and love. She was fond of the
excitable little Frenchman, and knew how to manage him to a
nicety.

It was to the Dancing Academy that Jennings turned his steps a
few days after the interview with Susan. He had been a