Apparently he has no interest in the case. And
yet I cannot quite believe that Lawton is as uninterested as he
seems. I know that he has often spoken about her to members of the
Cosmos Club where he lives, and that he reads practically everything
that the newspapers print about the case."
"But you have no reason to think that there has ever been any secret
communication between them? Miss Georgette left no letters or
anything that would indicate that her former infatuation survived?"
"None whatever," repeated Mr. Gilbert emphatically. "We have gone
over her personal effects very carefully, and I can't say they
furnish a clue. In fact, there were very few letters. She rarely
kept a letter. Whether it was merely from habit or for some purpose,
I can't say."
"Besides her liking for Dudley Lawton and her rather romantic nature,
there are no other things in her life that would cause a desire for
freedom?" asked Kennedy, much as a doctor might test the nerves of
a patient. "She had no hobbies?"
"Beyond the reading of some books which her mother and I did not
altogether approve of, I should say no - no hobbies."
"So far, I suppose, it is true that neither you nor the police have
received even a hint as to where she went after leaving the
book-store?"
"Not a hint.
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