"You have saved my life,' she said.
The police took Mr Jones and his sister to the police station. Terry and Bill also went to the police station.
Terry told the police about Sheila hearing the voice in the upstairs bedroom of Number 12. He told them what Bill, the milkman, had said.
I thought that the woman in the upstairs bedroom was Miss Peters,' he said. 'I thought she was being kept prisoner in her own house.
And when I heard that the man was digging a grave in the back garden, I thought it was a grave for Miss Peters.'
'So who is this woman? And where is Miss Peters?' asked the policeman.
'That's for you to find out,' said Terry. 'I've done my work. you have to do the rest.'
'Right,' said the policeman. 'Let's start dig-ging!
The police dug all day in the garden of Number 12, but they found nothing.
Also the police learnt very little from Mr Jones and his sister.
'I haven't murdered anyone. They died, but I didn't murder them,' Mr Jones said over and over again.
By the evening, Nancy Roberts was able to tell the police her story. She told them how she had met Isobel and her brother in Eastbourne.
How she had got married in Hastings and then come with them to Beckenham. She told them how she had been kept locked in the upstairs bedroom. She thought that she had been given drugs to make her sleep all the time.
The police searched Number 12, but they didn't find any drugs. But when they searched Mr Jones' suitcase, they found the tablets of morphine. They arrested Jones and his sister. But they had not found out anything about Miss Peters. Where was she?
The Lonely Laday
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