The articles being all removed, he opened the mouth of the bag to its full width and drew out a false bottom. Under the bottom lay several folded papers which he proceeded to remove one by one.
“I can smell iodoform now, can’t you?” asked Jimmie.
“What do you mean by that?” demanded the Englishman.
“Didn’t they use iodoform in the private stateroom where the sick man was?”
“How did you come to know that?” asked the Englishman.
“Smell of the papers!” advised Jimmie. “They used iodoform in the stateroom, and these papers were opened and examined there! Do you begin to see daylight?”
“Do you know why they used iodoform in the stateroom?” asked Mr. Havens. “Is it possible that they wounded Colleton and found the use of the drug necessary?”
“I don’t know about that,” DuBois answered, “but I do remember now that there was a smell of iodoform whenever the man in brown opened the stateroom door.”
“Now, let’s see the papers,” Mr. Havens suggested.
Jimmie got one look at the documents as they were being passed to the aviator and jumped about four feet into the air!