“Inside job,” observed Scofield, briefly, his eyes on his work.
“Maybe the burglar was frightened away at the critical moment.”
“No. Whatever frightened him would be known to some member of the family.”
“Maybe it is.”
“Hey? Have you a theory?” and the Coroner looked up suddenly.
“Anything but! There’s no possible theory that will fit the facts.”
“Except the truth.”
“Yes, except the truth. But it will be long before we find that, I’m afraid. It strikes me it’s at the bottom of an unusually deep well.”
“Well, you’d better find it. It’d be a nice how d’y’ do for you to fall down on this case!”
“There’s no falling down been done yet. And it may well be that the very fact of there being such strange and irreconcilable conditions shall prove a help rather than a hindrance.”