"Miss Pearl, to my knowledge, is a woman who has always had an eye to the main chance," said Perry Toat, drily. "She has kept herself highly respectable, so that she might make a good match. Branwin is wealthy, and can give her rank and position. She would do much to become his wife."
"Would she commit a murder?" asked Shawe, doubtfully.
"She might, and she might not. I can say nothing more until I learn precisely what she was doing on that night."
"How can you learn?"
"I shall question Parizade."
"The blind girl? What can she tell?"
"I don't know, but I shall be able to get all information from her, whatever she may know."
"But, being blind, she can see nothing."
"She may have heard something," said Perry Toat, with emphasis. "Having lost her eyesight her hearing has become very keen, and also she has a very powerful sense of smell."
"What," Ralph joked, "do you expect her to nose the trail like a dog?"