For a moment they stood and looked at each other.
“Out with it,” Jack finally said.
“What do you mean?”
“I mean that you are thinking that she was lying.”
“But why should she?” Bob asked not denying the accusation.
“Ask me something easy,” Jack retorted.
“Confound it, just as we make up our minds that they know nothing at all about it, something happens to throw suspicion on them.”
“My sentiments to a dot.”
“But that job tonight wasn’t a part of their game, that is, if they are mixed up in it.” Bob insisted. “They may be good actors for all I know but that wasn’t faked. Not one little bit.”
“Again I agree with you. But, tell me this: just what makes you think she was not telling the truth? It would be possible for someone to come in here and prance around without disturbing things, you know. There isn’t so much to get out of place.”