"Then you think there is something in the popular theory that the present baronet and Miss Farmond were the guilty parties?"
Simon was silent for a moment, but his face was unusually expressive.
"I fear it looks like it."
"An unpleasant conclusion for you to come to," observed Mr. Carrington. "You are the family lawyer, I understand."
"Very unpleasant," Mr. Rattar agreed. "But, of course, there is no absolute proof."
"Naturally; or they'd have been arrested by now. What sort of a fellow is Sir Malcolm?"
"My own experience of him," said the lawyer drily, "is chiefly confined to his visits to my office to borrow money of me."
"Indeed?" said Carrington with interest. "That sort of fellow, is he? He writes, I understand."
Simon nodded.