"He'll have to go down under Motive, too, then."
"Why? What did he stand to gain by Miss Dorland's getting the legacy?"
"Nothing—if he knew about it. But Robert says emphatically that he didn't know. So does George. And if he didn't, don't you see, the General's death meant that he would immediately step into that two thousand quid which Dougal MacStewart was being so pressing about."
"MacStewart?—oh, yes—the money-lender. That's one up to you, Peter; I'd forgotten him. That certainly does put George on the list of the possibles. He was pretty sore about things too, wasn't he?"
"Very. And I remember his saying one rather unguarded thing at least down at the Club on the very day the murder—or rather, the death—was discovered."
"That's in his favor, if anything," said Parker, cheerfully, "unless he's very reckless indeed."
"It won't be in his favor with the police," grumbled Wimsey.
"My dear man!"
"I beg your pardon. I was forgetting for the moment. I'm afraid you are getting a little above your job, Charles. So much intelligence will spell either a Chief-Commissionership or ostracism if you aren't careful."
"I'll chance that. Come on—get on with it. Who else is there?"