"No, he doesn't give me that impression either, but I've been wrong in my summing up of men too often to set much store by that. But whoever murdered Fletcher must also have murdered Carpenter. Perhaps it was young Fletcher - but I'd give a year's pension to know what he did with the weapon!"
"Is it so certain that the same weapon was used?" asked Glass in his painstaking way.
"It seems extremely probable, from the surgeon's reports on the injuries in each case."
"What of the man whom I saw? He was not Neville Fletcher."
"Perhaps Carpenter."
Glass frowned. "Who then was the man seen by Mrs. North?"
"I can't tell you, unless again it was Carpenter."
"You would say that he returned, having been sent away? For what purpose?"
"Only he could have answered that, I'm afraid."
"But it seems to me that the matter is thus made darker. Why should he return, unless to do Fletcher a mischief? Yet, since he himself is dead, that was not so. I think the man Fletcher had many enemies."