There was something in the tone of his voice that had aroused her curiosity.
‘You remember, you told me, that when your brother was investigating the Cape Town–Simonstown robberies he worked with another officer, a man who was later murdered by Max Lorraine?’
‘Yes,’ she answered. ‘Yes, that’s right.’
‘Tell me – what did they call that man?’
Steve tried to recall the name of the man to mind. ‘Bellman!’ she exclaimed at length, ‘Sydney Bellman.’ Then after a pause she said: ‘Why do you ask?’
‘I was just wondering,’ said Paul Temple quietly, ‘I was just wondering.’
It was with some sense of satisfaction that Paul Temple mounted the steps which would take him into the hall at Scotland Yard. On the occasion of his visit there with Steve Trent a few days ago, the first he had paid since his newspaper days, he had felt remarkably like a guilty schoolboy being hauled before his headmaster for cheating.
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