"Well, I have the main facts, anyway. There may be one or two minor questions left, but the principal ones are answered."
"Then tell me, to the minutest detail, what you have learned, what has happened."
Professor Van Dusen sank back in his old, familiar pose in the large arm chair and Hatch related what he had learned and what he surmised. He related, too, the peculiar circumstances surrounding the wounding of Henley, and right on down to the beginning and end of the interview with Cabell in the latter's apartments. The Thinking Machine was silent for a time, then there came a host of questions.
"Do you know where the woman--Miss Austin--is now?" was the first.
"No," Hatch had to admit.
"Or her precise mental condition?"
"No."
"Or her exact relationship to Cabell?"
"No."
"Do you know, then, what the valet, Jean, knows of the affair?"