"I don't know why the marriage doesn't take place," said Saltars pondering, "but I think it is because there's no money."
"There's the forty thousand pounds."
"That can't be found, and there's no memorandum amongst the papers of Strode likely to say where it is. I expect he brought the money home from Africa in the form of diamonds, and hid them somewhere."
Miss Lorry changed colour. "Oh," she said thoughtfully, and then went on rapidly, "If this forty thousand pounds comes to Miss Strode, I suppose she'd marry Hill."
"Rather. She seems very fond of him."
"He's worth being fond of! he's a man I tell you, Saltars. Humph! I wonder if the money can be found?"
"There doesn't seem to be much chance."
"Do you think the money is locked up in diamonds?"
"It might be. As no money was found, Strode might have brought home his fortune in that form."
"I read the papers about the inquest," said Miss Lorry, staring at the ground; "what about that lawyer?"