“Eyes that look a hole through a fellow, huh?” I put in.
“Exactly. He gives you the feelin’ when he’s around you that he’s constantly lookin’ fur somethin’.”
“And you never heard,” pressed Poppy, “that he and Lawyer Chew were particularly chummy, or that they were mixed up in any kind of property deals together?”
“Nope.”
“Dr. Madden went to Europe right after Mr. Danver’s funeral, didn’t he?”
“Ye-es, I think he did. That same week, as I recall.”
“Did you ever hear why he went to Europe?”
“It was told ’round here that he had gone away fur a rest.”
“Why? Was the case out here in the country a bad one?”
“The doctor an’ old Mr. Danver were great friends. An’ I guess it was an awful blow to the younger one when the old man died so suddenly.”