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FRIGAY—SEPTEMBER 11th LEAVES CAR NEAR STATION BOARDS 6.58 p.m. TRAIN GHANGES TO ARLBERG EXPRESS SATURDAY-SEPTEMBER 12th LEAVES TRAIN 9 a.m. The lady vanishes— | ina BIG CAR © | by GEOFFREY HOARE | wrongly identified as having been ven ab Vienna statian. What in tacy she did was to the Artbery express at but to leave i. easly aturday morning. at the ssvall i ‘tage of Sehwarzach s s fom Salzburg. here wag pI janntiention > vided be an BAnamed Americ: enlones Who was travelling he Arluerg to Vien! shared a first-class & ane sree journey, a he heard of Mr disappearance be nn to the = Aunerican in Vienna, who in- 5, Palice, who in French FPofice. Mrs. Dunbar. f the pathevc travelled w far too vi although it was a night Mac- ve ine s dexcriptio Nitthe family. wh: him that sight nod accurate to leave any, Fo ‘The two. fair-haired Tite boys in grey flannel puits who told him they went to school Om gor doubt. in} Geneva: the one expanding sukcase ang the two raffia hold- nip trom Majorca: Melinda and heg clothes—the bright blue tirge-quarter length coat--and, a etal which go wholly convine~ acleun family, who had not « needed, tha fact thot she was wearing a father cheap it * maschline wristavatch. ly cach, Melinda, Neving broken the bracelet wf her own ch, was using une which Mrs, Dunbar bad bought for Fergus, an in- expensive waich of the kind ene wauid normally give to a nine- yeur-old boy, ‘The colone] saw them Jeave the jeain. at Schwarzach St, Velt around 9 on the mornlag of Sajurday,. September: 12. agi Is Trail ends If further {dentification were necessary, it was supplied by a porter at Schwarzach Station, who helped the Macleans of the train, saw themi go into the restaurant, sad then, sbout 30 minutes later, drive away in a Jarge American ear which bad arrived while they were drinking their coffee. The driver was des- eribed as a slim man of average height who spoke Germans with an Austrian accent. . ‘That was the end of the trail, Melinda, lil: Donald before her,: had gone bpyond the boundaries: over which Western investigation could | east! follow ‘her, This fairly ‘rapidjy gathered evidenct ..between the two Si. Veit. for the inquiry started on Tues~ day, September 15, and was con- cluded five days later, was considered convincing enough for the Swiss Police to announce that the Bunt was of as it was cleat that “no purpose wuld be served by a further senech.” ‘There are, however. veral joints in the actual mechanics of he jonracy from Geneva to the ‘Austrian [rentier whieh have not been cleared up, fn the first place, Melinda lett home iu ber quite fast and powerful car at R30 on the Friday afternoon. ‘The next verified appearance was at the pera in Lausanne just before 7 pmo-—three dnd 3 half hours later, ‘The distance ever only 0 miles-—not niuch jrore than throe-quarters of an hour's drive. What did she da. tnd waere did she ga in the meantime ? . She gave herself, or was given, remarkably ltve “ime fo park the car und conduct her little rty, with a certain amount of uggage und a baby in arms, from the garage to the station, Some- body must have helped. ints is hOWs.to' spend by Switzerland, after SAME DAY—9.30 3. “DRIVES AWAY 1H AMERICAN CAR enough money, but she certal had fo time te ake tickets Lausanne. Fran what Mrs. Duabar tol TL estimated that Melinda lef neva with around £. 4 francs: snd she drew this money from the bank that afterncen at’ her mother's regest, My colleague Hurh MeLeave, ane of the News Chronicle crime reporters, who followed the trail from Geneva to Schwarzach St Veit ond who obtained the rehable and detailed fdentifiea- tion by the porter at the little Austrian station, worked it ont ag follows > Gne Besteclass ticket for her- self and twochaives for the bovs from Lausanne to Zurich: £7 18s. Frony Zurich to Buchs. on the: Austrian irontier, would enst £4 Gs. Yor the three of them, and: from Buchs onwards another Spent out ‘The tolal for netusl fares was therefpre £20 16s., without taking into eongideralion any additional expenses such as meals, porters! and anything she might have had m t she left her Rue des Alpes fiat in Geneva and before she caught the train, It could be done, but it would have left a very small balance with which to face unknovgs adventures or any emergengy should anything go wrong. as. Hr example. should she suddeipy have wished to go back, [World copyright! Te is clear to me that it was —————— during this time, this un- explained three hours, that Melinda saw whoever it was who was. instructed to contact her, End received her Anal instro ons, + . If is almost. certain, too, th: the tickets for her long jou were given to her before she xpt the station, for not only had she, so fax aa is known, barely