“So say the police. By the way, when were you called in?”
“This morning—at two o’clock.”
“It hasn’t taken long to get at the facts.”
“A mass of data was available from those other cases.”
“Yamotoga and Kornichef?”
Wygram’s calm avowal of full knowledge of those dark affairs which so deeply stirred a section of the world had a palpable effect upon Hartz. But he went on with his catechism.
“Were you allowed to examine the body?”
“I was.”
“Were you able to tell the police the exact cause of death?”
“Oh, yes.”