something of the sort. Read that in the first column, Tom."

The story that he indicated had all the marks of having been
dropped into place at the last moment as the city edition went to
press in the small hours of the night.

It was headed:

GIRL'S BODY FOUND IN THICKET

The despatch was from a little town in New Jersey, and, when I saw
the date line, it at once suggested to me, as it had to Guy, that
this was in the vicinity that must have been traversed in order to
reach the point from which had come the report of the bloody car
that had seemed to tally with the description of that which
Warrington had lost. It read:

"Hidden in the underbrush, not ten feet from one of the most
travelled automobile roads in this section of the state, the body
of a murdered girl was discovered late yesterday afternoon by a
gang of Italian labourers employed on an estate nearby.

"Suspicion was at first directed by the local authorities at the
labourers, but the manner of the finding of the body renders it
improbable. Most of them are housed in some rough shacks up the
road toward Tuxedo and were able to prove themselves of good
character. Indeed, the trampled condition of the thicket plainly
indicates, according to the local coroner, that the girl was
brought there, probably already dead, in an automobile which drew
up off the road as far as possible. The body then must have been