The case of Mrs. Christie, a novelist, who disappeared recently-in
Surrey, is one of the strangest affairs of its kind on, record. Mrs. Christie's motor-car was found abandoned near Newlands Corner, and for eleven days not only the local police, who were particularly active, but the police all over the country were searching for her. Millions of pictures of her were circulated in the newspapers ; hundreds of thousands of columns were written about her disappearance ; thousands of motorists visited Newlands .Corner and scoured the country under the direction of the police. Ponds were dragged. Al this time Mrs. Christie was staying comfortably and apparently unconcerned in an hotel in Harrogate. She arrived at this hotel on the same day on which her motor-car was found abandoned. She must have gone straight there by train. She arrived with hardly any luggage, and her resemblance to Mrs. Christie, who was being talked about continually in the hotel as everywhere else, was at once noticed.
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