“There was but one. I forgot him. Yes, he knew, but he was a greedy scamp, and Mr Varian easily bought him over. He died soon after, anyway.”
“So that now,—what living people know of this thing?”
“Why—you say Mr Varian is dead?”
“Yes.”
“And Mrs Varian never learned the truth?”
“No,” Zizi answered, emphatically, “she never did.”
“And Nurse Black is dead, and the doctor is dead,—why, then nobody knows it—oh, yes, Mrs Curtis, of course.”
“She, too, is dead,” Wise said.
“Then nobody knows it but we three here. Unless of course, Mr Varian or Mrs Curtis told.”
“Mr Varian never did,” Wise said,—“as to Mrs Curtis I can’t say.”