‘Was he in your debt when he died?’
‘No; he paid me all he owed me a little while before his death.’
‘Have you any theory to suggest with reference to the deaths of these two gentlemen?’
‘None whatever.’
‘Were you very much surprised when you heard of the strange way in which they both died?’
‘I can’t say that I was.’
‘Why were you not?’ asked Danevitch quickly.
‘In the first place, I didn’t know they had been murdered.’
‘But when you did?’
‘Then I thought they had made themselves obnoxious to somebody, and the somebody had put them out of the way.’