“Possible suspicion! If you had seen the situation! There were the two women, both shivering with fear and terror, and there was the dead or dying man between them! Why, Mr. Ford, it wasn’t suspicion, it was certainty that one or the other had stabbed him!”
“And why have you changed your mind since?”
“Partly because of that clairvoyant person. I don’t believe in those things, but—well—do you?”
“I do not. But I can see how she would turn suspicion away from the two women in question. Who sent for the clairvoyant?”
“Mrs. Stannard did, but, first, the Priestess, as she likes to be called, wrote and asked for a séance.”
“She did! How did she know she was wanted?”
“She didn’t know. Said she read about the case, and got interested.”
“Ah, a professional medium.”
“She said not. Said she only offers to help in cases that appeal especially to her.”
“H’m. Well, then she turned all your thoughts toward Mr. Courtenay, I am told.”