to base your suspicions, I grudgingly admit to you that I have a feeling you may be right."
"You progress, Dr. Lowell," Ricori said, formally. "I predict that it will not be long before you will as
grudgingly admit the possibility of my witch."
"I am sufficiently abased," I replied, "by my present credulity not to deny even that."
Ricori laughed, and busied himself copying the essential information from the reports. Ten o'clock struck.
McCann came up to say that the car was waiting and we accompanied Ricori to the door. The gunman
had stepped out and was on the steps when a thought came to me.
"Where do you begin, Ricori?"
"With Peters' sister."
"Does she know Peters is dead?"