“Why do you all say the old lady? She wasn’t really old.”
“About fifty. But she tried so hard to appear young, that it made her seem older.”
“She was in love with the Count, of course?”
“Yes; as she was in love with any man she could attach. No, that’s not quite true. Miss Lucy cared only for interesting men, but if she could corral one of those, she used every effort to snare him.”
“Is the illustrious Count interesting?”
“She found him so. And, yes, he always entertained us. She made that bequest to attract his attention and lure him on. And then——”
“Well, and then?”
“Oh, then he couldn’t withstand the temptation and he shuffled her off, to make sure of the money now.”
“You think he killed her, then?”
“Who else? Those girls never used a black-jack——”