"Well?" questioned Weston.
"I know what you want to know, commissioner," answered Cardona solemnly. "This Harvey case. Well" — he pointed to the newspaper with his thumb — "it's all there. For once, the tabloids have got it straight!"
An expression of amazement came over the commissioner's face. Cardona repressed a grim smile. He had dumfounded Commissioner Ralph Weston!
It was a full minute before the official recovered from his surprise. Then he thumped his fist on the newspaper and stared at Cardona defiantly.
"Do you mean to say," demanded Weston, "that this tommyrot about a killer ghost is all that you have discovered in this case? What has possessed you, Cardona?"
"Out of eleven persons present," declared Cardona, "ten bear witness to that fact. Only one offered a different theory."
"Ten fools!" exclaimed the commissioner. "Ten ignorant, stupid fools who—"
"Have you read their names, commissioner?" asked Cardona mildly.
"Yes," admitted Commissioner Weston reluctantly.
"I found those people very excited," said Cardona, in a quiet tone, "but I wouldn't like to say that any one of them was ignorant or stupid. They were very intelligent people, commissioner. People who have brains as well as money."