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Marlowe in the car appeared at Southampton by half-past six . I bring this manuscript to an end in my sitting-room at the hotel at Marlstone . It is four o'clock in the morning . I leave for London by the noon train from Bishopsbridge , and immediately after arriving I shall place these pages in your hands . I ask you to communicate the substance of them to the Criminal Investigation Department . PHILIP TRENT . CHAPTER XII : Evil Days ` I am returning the cheque you sent for what I did on the Manderson case , ' Trent wrote to Sir James Molloy from Munich , whither he had gone immediately after handing in at the Record office a brief dispatch bringing his work on the case to an unexciting close .