Chapter XXI
Two weeks later the following letter came from Judy:
"Dearest Claire,
"This is the last letter I'll write to you from here, as I'm coming home so soon now. I wish I could bring Stephen with me, but Miss McPherson says he won't be ready to travel for another week or so, and of course I want to be back in time to spend a few days with Noel before he goes. But Stephen is wonderfully better and quite light-hearted, and, at the prospect of seeing you, light-headed.
"Things have been happening here. Many things.
"In the first place we heard this morning that a Count Somebody—our informant, Mr. Colebridge, couldn't remember the name—had been found murdered on the Upper Corniche Road. He says it was an Italian name, and he is going to find out all he can about it. I'm almost certain it will prove to be Chiozzi. He was so fearfully jealous of that little dancer Mlle. Pauline.