are two Richmonds.”
Tommy, who was driving, slowed up.
“Tuppence,” he said affectionately. “Your idea is not so dusty. Let us make inquiries at yonder post office.”
They drew up before a small building in the middle of a village street. A very few minutes sufficed to elicit the information that there were two Maldons. Maldon, Surrey, and Maldon, Sussex, the latter a tiny hamlet but possessed of a telegraph office.
“That’s it,” said Tuppence excitedly. “Stavansson knew Maldon was in Surrey, so he hardly looked at the word beginning with S after Maldon.”
“Tomorrow,” said Tommy. “We’ll have a look at Maldon, Sussex.”
Maldon, Sussex, was a very different proposition to its Surrey namesake. It