"But there were no marks on her linen," cried Darrel.
"I know that," said Torry, rubbing his plump hands together, "but there was the name of a fashionable milliner stamped on the lining of the hat the dead woman wore. I went to see that milliner--Madame Vert, of Regent-street--and I discovered that the hat was made for Miss Sandoval."
"For Donna Maria," said Darrel; then, on receiving a nod from the detective, he asked: "How did her hat come to be worn by the dead woman?"
"I must find that out from the lady herself," replied Torry; "but you can see for yourself that this discovery connects Wray House with the crime."
"Possibly. But does it never strike you that the Bank in Fleet-street may have some connection also? For my part, I mistrust Leighbourne."
"You have no cause to do so; there is absolutely nothing to connect him with the crime."
"What about his agitated demeanour?"
"Pooh, pooh!" cried Torry briskly. "Of course the man was agitated on hearing of Grent's terrible death. You can't judge a man in such circumstances. Now, to my mind, the fainting of Vass at the sight of the mummy is more suspicious."
"I thought he explained that?"
"He does--and in a way likely to upset my theory. Vass declares that he saw the Blue Mummy on Grent's table; and it was the sight of it again in connection with the crime which made him faint. The explanation is rather feeble. Still, if Grent had the mummy in his possession, he could not have received it from his assassin; and if he did not, how was it found beside his dead body."