Max shook his head. “I don’t know. I’ve never seen either before. There was something odd about the way that girl behaved. She wasn’t drunk. She was faking.”
“Crispin was a fool to have touched her. She might have complained to the police.”
“Why didn’t she?”
“Yes, why?”
There was another long pause while they brooded.
“Maybe they came down here for revenge; found the money and killed Crispin to steal it,” Emily said at last.
“How could they know Crispin had this place? No one knew that he came here.”
“Sydney Brant knew,” Emily said thoughtfully.
“Brant? He hasn’t been around for months. Besides, after Crispin burnt him, he was too scared to come near the place. This is nothing to do with him; but the girl and the big man maybe, I don’t know…”
“Well, we can’t waste time. We must settle this business. Whoever did it will have to pay.”