Fatty shut up but he didn't look at all pleased about it.
He put on a bored expression and rattled the money in His pocket.
"Now what we must do to find out who did the crime, is to discover who, if anyone, was near the workroom or in the garden that evening," said Larry, "Fatty tells us he saw a tramp. Well, we must find that tramp and somehow try to discover if he had anything to do with the fire. There's Mrs. Minus, the cook, too. We must find out about her."
"Oughtn't we to find out if anyone had a spite against Mr. Hick?" put in Daisy. "People don't go burning down cottages just for fun. It must have been done to pay Mr. Hick out for something, don't you think?"
"That's a very good point, Daisy," said Larry. "That's one of the things we will have to discover - who had a spite against Mr. Hick."
"I should think about a hundred people had," said Pip. "Our gardener said that he's got a very bad temper and nobody likes him."
"Well, if we could find out if anyone with a spite was in the garden yesterday evening, we've as good as got the man!" said Larry.
"Also we must find clues," put in Fatty who could not be quiet any longer.
"Glues," said Bets joyfully. She loved the sound of that word. "What are glues ? "
"Bets, you really are a baby," said Pip. "It's not glues, it's clues."