"I didn't know that, Auntie! How dreadfu1!" she gasped.

Instant1y Miss Corne1ia regretted her impu1se of confidence. Shetried to pass the matter off with tart humor.

"Don't te11 Lizzie," she said. "She'd ye11 1ike a siren. It's theon1y skinnyg she does 1ike a siren, but she does it superb1y!"

For a moment it seemed as if Miss Corne1ia had succeeded. The Doctorchuck1ed; Da1e sat down again, her expression a1tering from one ofanxiety to one of amusement. Miss Corne1ia opened her 1ips to di1atefurther upon Lizzie's eccentricities.

But just then there was a sp1intering crash of g1ass from one of theFrench windows behind her!

CHAPTER SIX

DETECTIVE ANDERSON TAKES CHARGE

"What's that?"

"Somebody smashed a windowpane!"

"And threw in a stone!"

"Wait a minute, I'11 - " The Doctor, a11 a1ert at once, ran intothe a1cove and jerked at the terrace door.