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About the Author

James Everil (Ev) Smyth studied commerce at University of Toronto, where he earned
a B.A. and an M.A. He also became a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the
Institute of Chartered Accountants. He taught at Queen’s University from 1946 to 1963,
and then returned to University of Toronto where he taught until 1983. He was an
outstanding teacher and also served a term as head of the Department of Political
Economy and then as head of the School of Business at University of Toronto. He was
the author of Introduction to Accounting Methods (Kingston: Jackson Press, 1951)
and The Basis of Accounting (Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1954). In 1983, he was
posthumously given the L.S. Rosen Award for Outstanding Contribution to Canadian
Accounting Education by the Canadian Academic Accounting Association.

Dan Soberman studied law at Dalhousie University and at Harvard University. He

began teaching at Dalhousie in 1955, and in 1957 moved to Queen’s University to help
start the law faculty. He was dean of the faculty from 1968 to 1977, taught full-time until
retirement in 1993, and continued to teach part-time there and in the School of Business
until 1999. In the late 1960s, he was a member of a federal Business Corporations Task
Force that drafted the Canada Business Corporations Act. In the autumn term of 2000,
he was visiting professor at Kwansai Gakuin University in Japan. From 1977 until 2000,
he was an adjudicator on human rights tribunals in Ontario and federally, and also acted
as an arbitrator in labour disputes. He has authored, or co-authored, chapters in various
legal books and articles in law journals.

Alex Easson studied law in England, at Oxford University and the London School of
Economics. Prior to coming to Canada, he practised law as a solicitor in London and
taught at the University of Southampton. He was appointed Professor of Law at
Queen’s University in 1976 and remained at Queen’s until he retired from full-time
teaching in 2000. He then concentrated on his consulting practice, working principally
for international organizations such as the IMF and the OECD, and specializing in
international taxation, foreign investment, and economic reform. His work took him to
more than 40 countries on five continents. He authored, or co-authored, more than a
dozen books, the most recent being Tax Incentives for Foreign Direct Investment (The
Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2004). We at Pearson Canada appreciate his
contributions over several editions to this highly-acclaimed text.

Shelley McGill received her LL.B. from the University of Western Ontario and her LL.M.
from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. She is an associate professor of
business law at Wilfrid Laurier University’s School of Business & Economics where she
teaches law to graduate and undergraduate business students. Prior to joining Laurier,
she was a partner in the Ontario law firm of Sims Clement Eastmen (now Miller
Thomson). In 1992, Mrs. McGill was appointed a Deputy Judge of the Ontario Small
Claims Court and she continues to preside on a part-time basis. Her research focuses
on consumer protection issues and has been published in a variety of Canadian and
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“Perhaps,” Kitty retorted, flushing hotly.
“I don’t remember that there was any perhaps about it,” old Lady
Clevedon replied.
“The story, as far as Holt has told it, is perfectly true,” Thoyne said
slowly. “But now there is one other person who knows the whole
truth, and I want you to ask her.”
“Her! Who?” Lady Clevedon demanded.
“Nora Lepley.”
“Nora—Lepley, but—”
“She was a V.A.D. in the hospital where Miss Grainger was a nurse,”
I interposed. “Yes, she may know—if we could send for her—”
“She is in the house now,” the younger Lady Clevedon chimed in,
speaking for the first time. “I will ring for her.”
Nora came, and I handed her a chair. For a moment she hesitated,
then sat down with a glance round the semicircle of perhaps not very
friendly faces. I sat back watching the girl closely.
“Now then, Mr. Detective, ask her what you want to know,” old Lady
Clevedon rasped. “Oh, yes, it’s your job. You’ve got to fill in your
interval, you know.”
I glanced at Thoyne, who nodded affirmatively, and then I turned to
Nora Lepley.
“You served as a V.A.D. in a hospital in Bristol,” I said. “Mary
Grainger was there as a nurse. Then Mr. Thoyne came in as a
patient. You remember all that?”
“Yes—what of it?”
“You were there when Mary left, and—”
“No, I wasn’t. I had come home. I turned up ill and they sent me
home.”
“Then you were not at Bristol when Miss Grainger ran away with Mr.
Thoyne and—”
“Ran away!” she cried. “With Mr. Thoyne!”
She sat straight up in her chair and laughed in my face.
“Mary didn’t run away,” she went on. “She was married. I was there
as her bridesmaid. I met them in London specially for it, and Mr.
Thoyne was there, too, as best man. She married an American
named Blewshaw. He was a patient in the hospital, like Mr. Thoyne.
The marriage had to be kept secret because Mr. Blewshaw’s father
would object. I didn’t like it, neither did Mr. Thoyne. He told me so.
But it was Mary’s business, not ours, and she had agreed. They
took a flat in London—oh, I know what you mean. When she died,
Mr. Thoyne was paying for her, and he has kept her baby since. But
that was because he had introduced Blewshaw to her, and
Blewshaw had let her down. He thought he was in some sort of way
responsible. I didn’t see it myself but he did. Blewshaw went off to
America, and she followed him, only to find that he had a wife there
already. When she discovered that she came back to England—she
wouldn’t touch the money Blewshaw offered her—and tried to earn
her living. But she didn’t tell anyone, not me, not her father. Mr.
Thoyne found her just as she was almost at her last gasp, and he
looked after her. Her father would have nothing to do with her nor
with her baby. Mr. Thoyne found her quite accidentally, and he told
me about her. I went down to Long Burminster to see her. That is
the whole story.”
“Thoyne comes well out of it, anyway,” I said cheerfully.
Kitty went to him and kissed him, and I think with very little
provocation would have kissed me too. She had loyally asserted her
belief in him, and possibly had actually persuaded herself that it was
genuine. But it was easy to see that she was enormously relieved
when she heard Nora Lepley’s corroboration. After all, Mary
Grainger had been a very pretty girl, and Thoyne was only a man.
When Nora had gone, Thoyne told us Mary Grainger’s story in more
detail, though I can summarise it here in a few lines. It was just as
she had recounted it to him, with annotations where necessary, from
Mr. and Mrs. Job Greentree. Mary found work at first in Liverpool,
where she landed on her return to England, and then, when that
failed her, she left her baby with the people with whom she had been
lodging, and set out to walk to London, a mad project, as it seemed,
though she did better than one might expect.
Many helped her on the way, and eventually she reached a little
Midlands village, still over sixty miles from her destination. It had
grown dark, and was raining heavily; and as she stood in the
shadow, gazing rather longingly at a warmly lighted inn, the door of
which stood invitingly open, revealing an interior that seemed to be
all bright reds and warm browns, and which, at all events, promised
shelter, a heavy motor-van, on the sides and back of which was
painted, in big, white letters, “Job Greentree, Carrier,” drew up, and
from it descended a big man muffled in enormous coats, and
sporting a huge beard. He lifted three or four parcels from the
interior of the van, and strode into the inn, leaving the door of the
vehicle a few inches open.
Mary crept forward. Here, at all events, was shelter and a means of
covering a few more miles. That it might be going in an opposite
direction did not occur to her. She clambered easily into the car,
and, creeping into the shadows at the far end, lay down on
something soft, warm, and comfortable, though whether sacks or
rugs, she did not know. What happened thereafter was a total blank
to her. She lapsed straightway into a stupor that was more
unconsciousness than sleep, and lay thus, oblivious to everything.
When she came to herself she was seated, swathed in blankets,
before a wood fire that roared and crackled half-way up the chimney
of an old-fashioned grate, while, bending over her, with a mug of
steaming brandy in one hand and a spoon in the other, was the
motherly, anxious face of a woman.
The carrier—he combined the office with those of village
wheelwright, blacksmith and undertaker, and was known far and
wide as Job—had drawn up with a rattle at the door of the cottage
that stood alongside the smithy, had dismounted and lumbered
round to the back of his van.
“By gum!” he said slowly. “That’s a rum un—it is an’ all.”
The door of the cottage was open, sending a shaft of warm light
across the roadway.
“Hallo! hallo! Mother, come here and look at this,” the big man
shouted.
The woman standing in the porch caught a wrap from one of the
hooks behind the door and flung it over her head, then went to the
car, where her husband stood with the light of his electric lantern
blazing upon Mary, who lay wet through and motionless from utter
weariness and exhaustion.
“A girl! Who is she, Job?” the woman asked.
“I don’t know,” the bearded man replied. “I never saw her before. I
wonder where she got in.”
“Well, pick her up and bring her through,” the woman said. “She
can’t lie there—she’s terrible wet, poor dear!”
The bearded man stooped down, and, lifting Mary as if she had been
a doll, strode with her into the house and placed her in an easy chair
before a roaring fire in the warm, well-lighted kitchen, and there she
lay, with the water dripping from her skirts and forming tiny rills on
the hitherto spotless floor.
“Poor dear, she’s worn out!” the woman said. “Now you go and look
after your van, and I’ll see to her. It’s bed she wants, and something
hot to drink. You keep out of the way for a bit, and I’ll get those
clothes off her and some warm blankets round her.”
She ran bustling upstairs, returning in a minute or two with an armful
of blankets and some big towels. In three or four minutes she had
Mary stripped and then, after a vigorous rubbing, wrapped her in half
a dozen blankets, until there was nothing visible save a small, white
face peering out from what looked like a bale of woollen goods in a
furniture store.
But the exposure and suffering had had their effect, and Mary fell
into an illness from which she emerged—it was a surprise to those
who nursed and tended her that she came out at all—but a wreck of
her former self, with her mind a confused tangle, and her memory
gone.
Physically, she made a little, very slow progress, but mentally, she
seemed to be at a standstill. And thus it was that Ronald Thoyne
found her.
She was seated on the long, wooden bench that flanked the porch of
the cottage, when a motor-car drew up suddenly, and Thoyne,
leaping therefrom, came towards her with long strides.
“Mary!” he cried. “Is it really yourself, Mary?”
For a moment or two the girl’s brows were knit in a puzzled frown,
and then she shook her head. A woman came running from the
cottage and laid a hand on his arm.
“Do you know her?” she asked.
In a few, rather incoherent sentences, she told him the story of
Mary’s arrival and of her subsequent illness. But she had hardly
finished her story—had not, in fact, completed it—when Mary almost
sprang at her, shaking her roughly by the arm.
“My baby!” she cried. “Where is my baby?”
They soothed her gradually and when they had heard her story
Thoyne took her to Liverpool himself, where they found the child safe
and well cared for, a matter on which those responsible had good
cause to congratulate themselves when they received Thoyne’s very
handsome present. Thoyne took Mary back to the home of the
carrier and his wife and there the girl remained until she died.
“And that,” Thoyne concluded, “is the whole story, which I never
intended to tell, never should have told, but for the suspicions that
seem to have arisen out of it.”
“You were a fool,” Lady Clevedon the elder said tartly. “You had
better have told me or Kitty all about it and left it to us. We would
have looked after the baby.”
 CHAPTER XXVI
NORA LEPLEY’S EXPLANATION

“And now,” Lady Clevedon said, “who was it killed Sir Philip? You
promised to tell us, you know.”
“I will,” I responded, “but I am not yet quite ready.”
“No, but dinner is,” the younger Lady Clevedon interrupted.
“Suppose we have that first.”
“And after that,” I added, “I should like to see Nora Lepley again, but
alone this time.”
“That is easily arranged,” was the reply. “She is staying in the house
to-night. But dinner first. Are you really going, though, to tell us—?”
“I have every hope of it,” I responded and there I left it, though during
dinner I was subjected to a sort of oblique catechism, chiefly by the
two ladies, which I parried as best I could. Not that they addressed
many questions directly to me but their conversation, ostensibly
between themselves, really amounted to that.
My interview with Nora Lepley took place in the study, the room
wherein Sir Philip Clevedon had been found dead, though I don’t
think Lady Billy had any particular thought in mind when she sent us
there; it merely happened to be convenient. I was not sorry the room
had been chosen, though it had not occurred to me to suggest it.
“Now sit down, Miss Lepley,” I said, “and let us talk. But first of all I
want you to understand that I mean you no harm if you are frank with
me.”
“I don’t know what you mean,” she responded a little sullenly, giving
me a flashing glance from her black eyes that was at least three
parts anger. “What harm could you do me? I am not afraid of you.
This is the second time you have wanted me. Didn’t you believe
me? Is it about Mary again?”
“No,” I replied, “it is about yourself this time. Did you know that some
time ago the police took out a warrant for your arrest?”
“Arrest!”—she sat back in her chair and regarded me smilingly
—“Why should they want to arrest me?”
If Nora Lepley was in any way afraid of me or even unusually
disturbed she did not show it. Her dark eyes, full of slumbrous fires
and undefined passions, regarded me frankly, and a queer, rather
mocking smile hovered about her finely modelled lips. She was
beautiful in an unexpected, unusual fashion, but her loveliness
lacked softness and charm, at least that was my reading of it. She
might fascinate or infatuate many men but few of them would love
her.
There was not the faintest sign or touch of weakness about her and
one could hardly imagine her reduced to tears. Whatever the trouble
she was facing, she would fight to the end. One could only try to
entrap her with the odds rather in favour of failure unless one were
very well equipped indeed. I had to try it anyway.
“They want to arrest you,” I said, speaking carelessly, though I was
watching her closely, “for the murder of Sir Philip Clevedon.”
“Sir Philip Clevedon! Murder!” she cried. “Oh, but I had nothing to
do with that.”
“You stabbed him with a hatpin.”
“But he was dead before—I mean—I don’t know anything about it—I
don’t know what you mean.”
“How did you know he was dead when you stabbed him?” I asked.
“I—but I didn’t stab him—I know nothing about it—I never saw the
hatpin—I never had one like it.”
“Sometimes,” I went on remorselessly, “the police do not tell all they
know. Sir Philip Clevedon was murdered with a hatpin—just so. But
we mustn’t say that. Let us suppose he died of poison and that will
throw the real murderer of her guard. Or suppose he had taken
poison and was still living when you stabbed him. If a doctor had
been promptly brought he might have been saved. Or he may have
been dying and you merely finished him. How you would stand then,
legally, I mean, I am not quite sure. An interesting query would arise
over which the lawyers would waste many words. Did he die from
poison or from the hatpin? Either would have been sufficient, but
which was first—hatpin or poison? You see, Miss Lepley, the case is
not simple. If the police arrest you it may not be easy for you to
wriggle out.”
“But I tell you I know nothing of it!” she cried, her voice rising a little.
“Well,” I went on, “let me tell you one or two things I have learned,
one or two facts, just to refresh your memory. In France, you know,
the reconstruction of a crime is part of their criminal procedure. It is
not often adopted in this country—no, sit down, please—but it may
be useful now. I think you must hear me out—for your own sake and
your parents’—”
“Leave my parents out of it,” she cried, her face reddening violently.
“Unfortunately, we can’t do that,” I rejoined equably. “What affects
you touches them, also. You cannot separate yourself from them.
But we won’t quarrel over that. Let us go back to the morning of
February 24th, when you discovered Sir Philip’s body—”
“He was dead when I saw him,” she said, “and I know nothing of—”
“You went through your aunt’s sitting-room,” I continued, as if I had
not heard her, “and you noticed the hatpin which Miss Clevedon had
left there the previous night. You recognised it and picked it up.”
“I don’t know what you are talking about,” she muttered sullenly.
“It was in your hand when you entered the study and saw Sir Philip
asleep on the—”
“He was dead, I tell you dead!” she cried shrilly.
“Well, perhaps—you say so, anyway. You went up to the couch and
plunged the hatpin into his body in such a way that had he been
asleep, it would have killed him.”
“He was dead,” she repeated.
“Before you stabbed him with the hatpin?” I inquired softly.
“I didn’t—I know nothing of the hatpin—I don’t know what you mean.”
The words came out a little incoherently. Even her finely balanced
nerves were becoming a little jangled. For the moment I thought she
was on the verge of collapse. But she pulled herself together again,
and sat facing me rigidly alert.
“Then you looked round you. On a little table by Sir Philip’s side was
a small bottle. Your first thought was that Sir Philip had poisoned
himself—”
“I knew he had,” she interrupted.
“You mean it was suicide?”
“Of course it was suicide.”
“Then why did you stab him?”
“I did not.”
“And more important still”—I slowed down very perceptibly here
—“why did you carry away the bottle and hide it in a small opening in
the rock wall of the passage beneath the ruined wing?”
Her face whitened a little, but she did not lose her self-control, and
sat resolutely facing me.
“You wanted the world to believe that Sir Philip Clevedon had been
stabbed to death. Why?”
She faced me unflinchingly—determined, as I could see, not to utter
a word.
“Why did you want the world to believe that Sir Philip Clevedon had
been stabbed to death?”
She did not move so much as an eyelid.
“Was it in order that suspicion might be cast on Miss Kitty, who had
been wearing that hatpin?”
She rose from her seat and passed her left hand with a gesture of
utter weariness across her forehead.
“Send for your policeman,” she said, “and let me be arrested. You
have no right to torture me. I would sooner go to prison. I would
rather be hanged than listen to you any longer.”
I stood up, too, and going towards her, laid a hand on her arm.
“I have not willingly tortured you,” I said gently, “but I had to learn the
truth.”
“I have denied everything,” she replied. “I admit nothing.”
“You have denied everything—and admitted everything,” I said.
“What do you mean by that?” she demanded.
“Tell me,” I said softly, “what made you think that Ronald Thoyne had
killed Clevedon? You were quite wrong, you know.”
“Wrong?”
“Yes, he had nothing to do with it.”
“Nothing?”
“Nothing at all—in the way you mean.”
“But—”
“I know what I am saying—nothing at all.”
“Is that—?”
“It is the absolute truth.”
There came an interruption in the form of a low knocking at the door,
followed by the entry of Detective Pepster.
“Well?” I asked.
“Yes,” he said grimly, “both well and bad. I was too late.”
He handed me a document he had been carrying in his hand.
“Grainger’s confession,” he said.
“Grainger!” Nora Lepley cried, springing forward as if with intent to
seize the paper. “What do you mean by that? And where is Mr.
Grainger?”
“Dead,” Pepster returned laconically. “A dose of the medicine he
gave Clevedon. Dead in his own office, and with this paper left on
the table.”
“Sit down,” I said, turning to Nora Lepley, “and listen. This will
interest you.”
I read aloud what Grainger had written, and after that we had no
difficulty in persuading the girl to talk.
 CHAPTER XXVII
WHO KILLED PHILIP CLEVEDON

It has fallen to my lot to outline the solution of a good many

mysteries, but never did I have a more appreciative or attentive or
admiring audience than on this particular occasion. To them I was a
wonder-worker, who had straightened out what looked like a
hopeless tangle. I made no attempt to undeceive them. It wasn’t
worth while, and it would have taken too long. But the reader who
has followed my detailed recital will know how I really blundered
through, how often I pursued false clues, the many side-issues that
misled me, and the patient, methodical and, on the whole, not very
exciting linking together of ascertained facts, which eventually
conducted me to the goal I sought. That is how all detective work
that is worth anything is done. The result may seen brilliant taken by
itself, but in detail it is a curious mixture of luck and chance, with
some amount of common sense, and a little of what is generally
labelled intuition.
“And have you really discovered who killed Clevedon?” Thoyne
asked.
“Yes,” I returned equably, “you did.”
“I expected that,” Thoyne rejoined, with a wry smile. “I think you
have suspected me all along. I seem to have been the villain of the
piece all through.”
“No,” I replied, “you do me an injustice. You were only one among
half a dozen. Let me tell you the story. It is very simple, and a few
words will encompass it. Grainger hated you because of his
daughter, and when you ordered that sleeping mixture from him he
filled the phial with prussic acid. His intention was to kill you. That
Clevedon was his victim was only an accident. Clevedon called on
you earlier on the night on which he died, didn’t he?”
“Yes, but I don’t know how you discovered it. I let Clevedon in
myself, and not a soul saw us.”
“But it is a fact.”
“Oh yes, quite. He came to see me to tell me he had resigned any
pretensions to marry”—he paused and glanced a little waveringly at
Kitty Clevedon—“to the young lady we both wanted. We were
friendly enough in a way.”
“You did not disclose this visit at the inquest?”
“No, the question was never asked, and I kept quiet, for fear I might
say too much. I don’t regret it,” he added fiercely.
“It has worked out all right,” I replied, “though it gave me a lot of extra
trouble and delayed my solution. However, you conducted your
visitor to the door and stood for a few minutes in the porch, chatting
to him. You were to be relatives by marriage, and had no particular
desire to quarrel. You were willing to forget that he had been Calcott
—”
“Calcott!” cried old Lady Clevedon, “who’s he?”
“A long story,” I returned smilingly. “Thoyne will tell you all about it
some day. It has no bearing on this case. But in the course of
conversation”—I had turned to Thoyne again—“he told you that he
suffered from sleeplessness, to which you replied that you had
occasionally done so since you had been wounded and shell-
shocked in the war, but that you had found a very useful medicine,
which you advised him to try. You had got a new bottle untouched,
and you offered to make him a present of it.”
“Quite right.”
“Then there you have the story—that is how Sir Philip Clevedon
died. He took the poison Grainger had intended for you.”
“What an escape!” Thoyne muttered, a little hoarsely.
“And the hatpin?” old Lady Clevedon queried sharply. “Was that an
accident, also?”
“Hardly,” I replied, “but that is another story, and a very curious one,
too.”
I had reached the most difficult part of my explanation. I had to
render it intelligible, without betraying Nora Lepley’s secret, which I
had surprised. To put it as briefly as possible, she had thrust the
hatpin through the heart of the dead man in the hope of diverting
suspicion from Ronald Thoyne, whom she believed to be responsible
for Sir Philip Clevedon’s death.
“As I had passed through my aunt’s sitting-room,” she had told me, “I
saw the hatpin lying there on the mantelpiece, and I picked it up,
intending to return it to Miss Kitty. It was in my hand when I entered
Sir Philip’s study and found him dead. I knew he had been
poisoned, because there was prussic acid in the bottle on the table.”
She explained to me when I questioned her that she had spent much
time with her friend, Mary Grainger, in the shop, and was familiar
with all sorts of drugs.
“On the floor,” she went on, “was a white paper, and when I picked it
up I found on it some pencil marks I had made myself. I had been
into Midlington and had called on Mr. Grainger, who asked me if I
would deliver a packet at Mr. Thoyne’s house, as he had no other
means of sending it. Of course, I said I would. At the station I
looked up some trains on the time-table, and having no other paper
with me, I noted them in pencil on the back of the little packet Mr.
Grainger had given me.”
So was explained the mysterious figures on the paper I had found in
Nora Lepley’s curious hiding-place. I regarded her thoughtfully for a
moment or two.
“You had delivered that packet at Mr. Thoyne’s house?”
“Oh, yes.”
“You thought Mr. Thoyne had passed it on to Sir Philip.”
“That’s what I thought—yes.”
“That he had procured some prussic acid from Mr. Grainger, so that
he might murder Sir Philip?”
“Yes—and then it occurred to me—that if Sir Philip—that perhaps
they might think he had been stabbed if—if the hatpin was found.”
“You did it to protect Thoyne?”
That she had been in love with Thoyne seemed evident; that she
would never confess as much was equally obvious; and I had no
desire to force her confidence. The fact was sufficient for me; the
motive I was content to leave in doubt, or at least, unexpressed.
That was the difficulty I had in telling my story to my little audience. I
was determined they should not draw the inference I had found
inevitable.
“The story of the hatpin,” I said, “is very curious, but quite simple.
Nora Lepley, when she found Sir Philip dead, recognised the bottle
as one she had found in Grainger’s shop. She had known Mr.
Grainger for many years, and had been his daughter’s bosom
friend. She jumped to the conclusion that Grainger had poisoned Sir
Philip, and it was in the hope of diverting suspicion from him that she
took away and hid the bottle and—er—used the hatpin. There is the
whole story.”
“But suppose somebody had been involved—Kitty, for example, or
Ronald—would she have spoken?” the younger Lady Clevedon
demanded.
“Undoubtedly,” I replied.
But I spoke without knowledge, because that was a question I had
carefully refrained from putting to Nora herself. My own impression
was that she would cheerfully have seen the whole Clevedon family
hanging in company if that would have secured Ronald Thoyne’s
immunity. But I did not tell them that.

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