“Perhaps she’s visiting someone else,” Judy suggested hopefully.
Peter shook his head. “I don’t believe it. In any case she would have been in touch with you.”
The policemen agreed that Jasper’s story was not a very convincing one. Dale Meredith came in while they were still questioning him. Horace and Arthur were with him.
“I’ll get something out of this bird,” Horace declared. “Officer, have I your permission to question him?”
“Fire away,” the policeman replied, “and more power to you!”
Horace turned to Jasper with flashing eyes.
“What did Irene say the day she came, and if, as you say, she is not your niece how did she happen to enter your sister’s house?”
Jasper shrugged his shoulders and made a gesture indicating wheels going around.
“They cast spells, you know. Crazy people do. My sister’s eyes took possession of Irene. Hypnotized her completely. I never saw two people so attached to each other. Crazy as loons, both of them.”
“Irene Lang’s mind was perfectly sound,” Horace denied.