MR. WHITE’S METHOD
The policeman spoke first. “Has Jane Harding been here, then?” he said.
His words conveyed no meaning to his hearer.
They were so incongruous, so ridiculously unreasoning, that Bruce laughed hysterically.
“You must have seen her,” cried the detective excitedly. “I know you have learned the truth, and in no other way that I can imagine could it have reached you.”
“Learnt what truth?”
“That Sir Charles Dyke himself is at the bottom of all this business.”
“Indeed. How have you blundered upon that solution?”
“Mr. Bruce, this time I am right, and you know it. It was Sir Charles Dyke who killed his wife. Nobody else had anything else to do with it, so far as I can guess. But if you haven’t seen Jane Harding, I wonder how you found out.”
“You are speaking in riddles. Pray explain yourself.”