"You don't know her?" asked Jennings.

"No. Really, I don't. The name is quite unknown to me. What
is the girl like in appearance?" Jennings described Susan to
the best of his ability, but Cuthbert shook his head. "No, I
never saw her. You say she had this photograph in her trunk?"
Then, on receiving an affirmative reply, "She may have found
it lying about and have taken it, though why she should I
can't say."

"So you said before," said Jennings dryly. "But strange as it
may appear, Mallow, this girl is in love with you."

"How do you know that?"

"Well, you see," said Miles, slowly. "After the murder I
searched the boxes of the servants in the house for the
weapon."

"But there was no danger of them being accused?"

"No. Nor would I have searched their boxes had they not
insisted. But they were all so afraid of being accused, that
they wished to exonerate themselves as much as possible. The
fact that the whole four were in the kitchen together at the
time the crime was committed quite clears them. However, they
insisted, so I looked into their boxes. I found this
photograph in the box of the new housemaid. She refused to
state how it came into her possession, and became so red, and