“You have no enemy?”
“I know of none.”
“Nor M. Daval either?”
“Daval! An enemy? He was the best creature that ever lived. M. Daval was my secretary for twenty years and, I may say, my confidant; and I have never seen him surrounded with anything but love and friendship.”
“Still, there has been a burglary and there has been a murder: there must be a motive for all that.”
“The motive? Why, it was robbery pure and simple.”
“Robbery? Have you been robbed of something, then?”
“No, nothing.”
“In that case—?”
“In that case, if they have stolen nothing and if nothing is missing, they at least took something away.”