“No, left just as though people had eaten hurriedly and dropped the dishes back into place.”
“And the knives and forks were on the tray?”
“Yes.”
“You evidently looked that over pretty carefully.”
“I did. I wondered if Uncle Alden had been eating dinner with Conway because — well, I thought Uncle Alden had broken in and stolen those papers Milicant — Hogarty — bad.”
“You say there was a pot of coffee?”
“The pot had contained coffee. You could smell it.”
“There wasn’t any left?”
“No, not a drop.”
“Any food left?”