"Shattuck has given a detailed account of his doings last night. I'll tell you better about him when it's verified. Doctor Lathrop had two cases that night, which kept him out late. I believe they are bona fide. So far there's been no flaw in either story. That's what perplexes me. I thought I was on the trail of something."
"And when you find yourself up against it, you come to me?"
"Don't get peeved, Kennedy," mollified Doyle, though he himself had winced at the telling thrust of Kennedy.
"What about Lathrop's wife, Vina?" asked Craig. "Is she clear for that night?"
"I hadn't thought much about her," confessed Doyle. "Want me to find out?"
"Never mind. I am going to see her soon. I'll attend to that."
VI
THE "OTHER WOMAN"
Vina Lathrop received us a few moments later with a question in her eyes. Yet she discreetly did not hint at it in anything she said.
I have said that she was a woman of quite opposite type from Honora. Like her, however, she was a woman of rare physical attraction. Yet it needed only a glance to see that men interested Vina, and in that respect she gave one a different impression from Honora. And I am quite sure, also, that few men could have withstood the spell of her interest if she chose to bestow it. There was, no doubt, much in her life that that accounted for.