4. When cornered he had told a false story of a search for a lost locket.
5. The clothes of the dead man had been found in the very place where French imagined Domlio would have hidden them.
6. There was a quite adequate motive if, as might well be, Domlio was really attached to Mrs. Berlyn.
7. There was no other person whom French knew of who could have been Berlyn’s confederate.
Many and many a man had been hanged on far less evidence than there was here. With this mass of incriminating facts an arrest was amply justifiable. Indeed, a conviction was almost assured.
On the other hand, every bit of this evidence was circumstantial and could be explained on the assumption of Domlio’s innocence, by supposing him to be the victim of a conspiracy on the part of the real murderer.
French wondered if he could make the man reveal his own outlook on the affair.
“Tell me, Colonel,” he said, “did it not strike you as a strange thing that Mrs. Berlyn should stumble at just the point which ensured her falling into your arms?”
Domlio slackened speed and looked around aggressively.
“Just what do you mean by that?”