nearly nine o'clock before
Do n't you think it quite likely that Mrs. Stapleton , hearing from Miss Challoner all about what had happened , telephoned in Polish certain instructions to somebody in Newbury , most likely one of her accomplices , and that those instructions led , directly or indirectly , to Churchill 's being murdered the same night , lest he should discover anything and give information ? One thing I am sure of , though -- Mrs. Stapleton 's chauffeur is an honest man who does not in the least suspect what is going on ; who , on the contrary , believes his mistress to be a most estimable woman , kind , considerate , open-handed . I found that out while associating with him to-day as a fellow-chauffeur . '' It was nearly nine o'clock before we went out into Soho to dine . Preston told us that he had arranged to call at Willow Road for Dick between ten and half-past . The three of us were to go to Hampstead and represent ourselves as being instructed by Sir Roland to take the boy away . Preston himself would , he said , represent himself as being an Eton master , and Doris Lorrimer was to be closely cross-questioned as to who had authorized her to meet the boy and take him to Hampstead and -- Well , Preston had thoroughly thought out his plan of action down to the smallest detail , and during dinner in the little restaurant in Gerrard Street , to which he had taken us , he explained it to us fully .