“Well, he certainly wanted something.”
I nodded. “I think Tom Durham is a blackmailer. I think Tom Durham is blackmailing your aunt. Now put your mind on that and tell me how he could blackmail her. What he could possibly have on her.”
She frowned and said, “Blackmailing? Aunt Amelia?”
“That’s right.”
She shook her head and said, “Amelia wouldn’t blackmail.”
“Then he was trying to blackmail her.”
“She’d have called the officers.”
“I don’t think so. I think the evidence indicates he must have had something on her, or thought he did.”
“I haven’t the faintest idea what it could have been.”
“Is your aunt at all vulnerable?”