Anne instead meets Chichester, alias Miss Pettigrew. She is led to Sir Eustace where Pedler forces Anne to write a note to Harry to lure him to his office. Harry turns up and Pedler is exultant until Anne pulls out a pistol and they capture Pedler. Race turns up with reinforcements but Sir Eustace escapes overnight. Race tells her that Harry is John Eardsley, not Harry Lucas. Harry admits that receiving a huge fortune worries him and that he has found his happiness with Anne, and they marry and live on the island in the Zambezi and have a son. Characters Anne Beddingfeld: orphaned daughter of Professor Beddingfeld, famous archaeologist. Anita Grünberg: beautiful woman, murdered in The Mill House. John Harold Eardsley: son of Sir Laurence Eardsley, the South African mining magnate who died a month before Anne is aboard the ship, alias Harry Lucas, alias Harry Rayburn. Harry Lucas: friend of John Eardsley, killed in the Great War. Colonel Race: a distant cousin of Sir Laurence Eardsley who works for the British government as a spy or a detective. He has a reputation as lion hunter in Africa and as a wealthy man. Suzanne, the Hon. Mrs Clarence Blair: a society lady who befriends Anne Beddingfeld. Sir Eustace Pedler: a wealthy Member of Parliament and a businessman. Guy Pagett: Sir Eustace Pedler's secretary. Arthur Minks: alias the Reverend Edward Chichester, alias Miss Pettigrew, alias Count Sergius Paulovitch, and an agent of "The Colonel". Mr Flemming: solicitor, and his wife: Anne's hosts after her father's death. L B Carton: Anita Grünberg's husband, a diamond sorter for De Beers in South Africa. He died at Hyde Park Tube Station. Inspector Meadows: Scotland Yard detective who dismisses Anne's evidence about the murder in The Mill House as unimportant. Lord Nasby: owner of the Daily Budget and Anne's employer. The red-bearded Dutchman: an agent of "The Colonel". Mrs Caroline James: wife of the gardener at The Mill House, who gives the keys to potential renters. The Colonel: criminal mastermind and murderer whose identity is concealed for most of the story. Literary significance and reception The Times Literary Supplement reviewed the novel in its issue of 25 September 1924. The review appreciated the "thriller-cum-adventure" style of the book and concluded, "The author sets so many questions to the reader in her story, questions which will almost certainly be answered wrongly, that no one is