Kilshaw leant forward and answered, almost in a whisper,
"Five hundred on Friday night," and in spite of himself he avoided the Superintendent's shrewd eye. But that officer's business was not to pass moral judgments. Law is one thing, morality another.
"Then the thing's as plain as a pikestaff. This Gaspard got to know about the money, and murdered him to get it. We needn't look further for a motive."
"I suppose all this will have to come out? I wonder if Gaspard knew who Benham was?"
"It's not necessary to suppose that, unless we believe all Evans says. Certainly, if we trust Evans, Gaspard hinted designs on some one before he could have known Benyon had this money. Could he have known he was going to have it?"
"Benyon may have told him I had promised to help him."
"Well, sir, we must see about that. We shall want you at the inquest, sir."
"I suppose you will, confound you! And I should think you'd want a greater man than I am, too."
The Superintendent looked grave.
"I am going up to try and see the Premier at the House to-day," he said. "I think we shall have to trouble him. You see, he knew Gaspard as well as the deceased."