“Only a few days.”
“He came well recommended?”
“He had very fine written recommendations, but from people I did not know, and too far away to inquire of. I took him on trial.”
“He seemed honest and faithful?”
“He seemed so—but he was silent and moody—a man one could scarcely understand.”
“Can you imagine his killing his master—granting the opportunity?”
Mrs. Peyton considered. “I can imagine it,” she said, “but I shouldn’t like to say I would suspect him of it. He was soft-footed, and went about with a sort of stealthy manner, but I’m not prepared to say he was wrong in any way.”
“Call in Ito, the other one.”
Ito came, and stood stolidly by. His impassive demeanor was not unlike that of Gordon Lockwood. Waring had sometimes remarked this in a chaffing way to his secretary.
“You knew this Nogi?” asked Morton.