“You are sure of that?”
“Almost sure—oh, why, yes—that is, I am quite sure.”
“Yet you went over there Sunday evening, and came back to this house in possession of Doctor Waring’s valuable pin, and a large sum of money.”
“Oh, no, Mr. Cray, I didn’t do any such thing!”
“Then can you explain your possession of those articles?”
“You mean, I suppose the roll of bills that Miss Bascom put into my top bureau drawer?”
“Miss Bascom put in the drawer!”
“Yes—that is, she must have done so, or—how else could they have been found there? You know yourself, now, don’t you, Mr. Cray, that I’m not a burglar—or a bandit or a sneak thief? You know I never went in to Doctor Waring’s study and took those things! So, as I say, isn’t it the only plausible theory, that Miss Bascom, who found the valuables so readily, first put them there herself?”
CHAPTER XI
THE SPINSTER’S EVIDENCE
“That matter can easily be settled,” Cray said, and going to the door he asked Mrs. Adams to send Miss Bascom to them.