"No, sir. The name is an unusual one, and if I'd ever seen it before I
certainly should have remembered it."
"Well," I said, after some minutes of silence, "I want you to come with
me and try and find a lady. If we do meet her you'll see whether you
can identify her as a person you've seen before. You understand?"
"Yes," he replied, with a puzzled look. "But are we going to see the
woman whom the police suspect visited my master while I was absent?"
"Be patient," I said, and together we went out, and re-entering the cab
drove up to Hampstead.
The mystery of my friend's death was becoming more inexplicable.
Therefore I had resolved to seek Aline, and at all costs demand some
explanation of the extraordinary phenomena which had taken place in
Roddy's rooms as well as in my own.