“O! you do, do you?” He rubbed his chin grittily, pulling down his well-formed lower jaw, and stood for a moment or two speculatively regarding the face before him. “I wonder now,” he said suddenly, “if you would answer a question I might put to you?”
“I’ll see, my friend. Chance it.”
“What made you so interested in this business before even your man was charged on suspicion?”
“You allude——?”
“I allude to my finding you already on the spot here when I came down to make my own examination of it.”
“Surely I have no reason to hide what I have already admitted in public. I was uneasy about Louis.”
“And wanted to look and see, perhaps, if he’d left any evidences of his guilt behind him?”
“I admit I was anxious to assure myself that there were no such evidences.”
“And you did assure yourself?”
“Quite.”