“It might have been impulsive and unpremeditated——”
“At the time it happened, yes. I mean, it may not have been planned for that moment, but it was planned beforehand and the criminal sprang to take his chance when it offered.”
“Her chance.”
“I use the common pronoun. When I say his or him, I merely mean the hand that struck the blow.”
“Have you seen the paper,—the message?”
“I have it with me.”
Wise produced the glass-protected paper and together they studied the writing.
“It’s positively Binney’s,” Wise declared. “I’ve compared lots of his writing with it, and it’s surely his. Again, it was surely written at the moment of his death, for Moore found him dying, and the pencil just dropping from his fingers.”
“Oh, I don’t doubt all that,” Zizi said, impatiently, “but what does it mean? I’ve gone past the fact that women did it; I thoroughly believe that,—in fact, I think it means that women used the knife, but it may not, it may be merely that they were the primary causes. However, he knew, he was sure of the criminals who were to be punished. Now, if that bo means ‘get both’ there were only two. If it means something else there may be more than two women implicated.”
“Oh, Lord, Ziz, don’t gather in more than two suspects. Women don’t form a club for murder.”