“Clever trick, wasn’t it?”
“Yes, but unnecessary. He could have put the thing in safe deposit.”
“Englishmen are queer that way. And he may have distrusted our American institutions——”
“Well, anyway, there’s no doubt he did hide the paper behind the new wallpaper, and there’s no doubt somebody has stolen it. I suppose you agree to that?”
“Yea, my lord! But it may have been taken after the murder.”
“Of course it was. Why kill the man, else?”
“Why kill him at all?”
“To get him out of the way, in order to get the recipe and manufacture the buns.”
“For whom?”
“That’s just it. There are several bakeries interested,—others beside the principal ones, of which we know. Now we must find out which baker could have worked his deadly scheme through women.”