She checked her words suddenly, closing her lips and turning her face away.
"Will you please finish your sentence, Mrs. Eustace?"
"He may have lost—sometimes; but he won as well. He had those shares—they may yet bring him in a fortune," she said, pointing to the papers on the table.
"Do you know if there was ever any official reference to his speculations?"
Harding could barely hear the words as, with bowed head, Mrs. Eustace replied.
"I did not quite catch your answer," Durham said quietly.
"I said yes, there was—once."
"Did he tell you what was said?"
"I don't know," she said after a few moments' silence. "You had better ask the bank. I don't know anything about it."
"Perhaps you know why your husband was appointed to this branch?"