"About this enemy?" queried Colonel Harris vaguely.
"Why, yes," rejoined Luke a little impatiently, "surely the police have made other investigations. They are not just fastening on me and on no one else."
"Could you," asked Louisa, "help the police in that, Luke?"
"No;" he replied, "I know absolutely nothing about Philip or about his past life."
"Did Lord Radclyffe?"
"I don't know."
"He has been questioned, has he not?"
"He is too ill to see any one. Doctor Newington declares that he must not attempt to see any one. His condition is critical. Moreover, he is only partly conscious."
"But——"
"There's Philip's lawyer, Davies," said Luke; "the police ought to be in communication with him. It is positively ridiculous the way they seem to do nothing in the way of proper investigation, but only make up their minds that I have killed my cousin. Why! they don't even seem to trouble about the weapon with which the murder was committed."