“You say that you didn’t touch anything else in the cottage?”
“Nothing else.”
“How could you find your way about without a light?”
“I had a light; I took the flashlight from my car.”
“So that you could make a thorough search of the premises for anything that had been left behind?”
“We had left nothing behind.”
“But you couldn’t have been sure of that, could you? A knife, perhaps? A knife’s an easy thing to lose.”
“We had no knife.”
Mr. Farr greeted this statement with an expression of profound skepticism. “Now, before I ask you to step down, Mr. Bellamy, I want to make sure that you haven’t one final installment to add for our benefit. That’s all that you have to tell us?”
“That is all.”